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T I r E ARGUS  COMPANY,  I*  R I N T E R S 

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Members  and  Officers  of  tlie  Board,  Statutes 

IN  REGARD  TO 

its  Organization  and  Powers, 

AND  A 

DIRECTORY 


TO  THE 


CHARITABLE  AND  BENEVOLENT  INSTITUTIONS  OF  THE  STATE. 


1 876. 


Prepafed  by  Order  of  the  Board. 


ALBANY: 

THE  ARGUS  COMPANY,  PRINTERS. 
1876. 


STATE  OF  NEW  YORK. 


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State  Board  of  Charities. 


CALENDAR  FOR  1876 


EX-OFFICIO  MEMBERS.  • 

Hon.  Wm.  DORSHEIMER,  Lieutenant-Governor Albany. 

Hon.  JOHN  BIGELOW,  Secretary  of  State ...  Albany. 

Hon.  LUCIUS  ROBINSON,  Comptroller Albany. 

Hon.  CHAS.  S.  FAIRCHILD,  Attorney-General Albany. 

MEMBERS  APPOINTED  BY  THE  GOVERNOR  AND  SENATE. 

First  J^ididal  District  — Theodore  Roosevelt,  94  Maiden  Lane,  New  York. 
New  York  County  (Chap.  571,  Laws  of  1873)  — Henry  L.  Hoguet,  48  West 
Twenty-eighth  Street,  New  York;  Ciias.  H.  Marshall,  38  Burling  Slip, 
New  York. 

Second  Judicial  District  — Harvey  G.  Eastman,  Poughkeepsie. 

Kings  County  (Chap.  571,  Laws  of  1873)  — A.  A.  Low,  3 Pierrepont  Place, 
Brooklyn. 

Third  Judicial  District — John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  13  Elk  Street,  Albany. 

Fourth  Judicial  District  — Edward  W.  Foster,  Potsdam,  St.  Lawrence  County. 
Fifth  Judicial  District  — John  C.  Devereux,  Utica. 

Sixth  Judicial  District — Samuel  F.  Miller,  Franklin,  Delaware  County. 

Seventh  Judicial  District  — Martin  B.  Anderson,  Rochester. 

Eighth  Judicial  District — Wm.  P.  Letchworth,  Buffalo. 


OFFICERS. 

John  V.  L.  Pruyn.  President. 

Wm.  P.  Letchworth Vice-President. 

Chas.  S.  Hoyt,  Albany Secretary. 

James  O.  Fanning,  Albany Assistant  Secretary. 

Office  of  the  Board  — 11  High  Street,  Albany. 

STATED  PUBLIC  MEETINGS. 

Thursday,  March  9th,  at  10  o’clock  a.  m.,  at  the  Office  of  the  Board. 
Thursday,  June  8th,  at  10  o’clock  a.  m.,  at  Rochester. 

Thursday,  September  14th,  at  10  o’clock  a.  m.,  at  New  York. 

Wednesday,  December  27th,  at  10  o’clock  a.  m.,  at  the  Office  of  the  Board. 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE. 

The  President,  Vice-President  and  Secretary,  together  with  any  member  or 
members  of  the  Board  who  may  be  present  — three  to  constitute  a quorum. 

A Meeting  of  the  Committee  is  appointed  to  be  held  on  the  first  Tuesday’’  in  each 
month,  at  3:30  o’clock  p.  m.,  at  the  Office  of  the  Board. 


STATUTES 


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[Laws  of  1867.J 

Chapter  951. 


An  Act  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of  a Board  of  Com- 
missioners of  Public  Charities,  and  defining  their  duties 
and  powers. 

Passed  May  23,  1867  ; three-fifths  being  present. 


The  People  of  the  State  of  New  Yorh^  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assenubly^  do  enact  as  follows : 

Section  1.  Within  thirty  days  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  the 
Governor,  by  and  witli  the  consent  of  the  senate,  shall  appoint 
eight  persons,  one  residing  in  each  judicial  district  of  the  State,  to 
be  called  and  known  as  The  Board  of  State  Commissioners  of 
Public  Charities.  {See  Chapter  571,  Laws  1873.) 

§ 2.  One  of  the  persons  so  appointed  shall  hold  his  office  for  one 
year,  one  for  two  years,  one  for  three  years,  one  for  four  years,  one 
for  live  years,  one  for  six  years,  one  for  seven  years  and  one  for 
eight  years,  as  indicated  by  the  governor  on  making  the  nomina- 
tions; and  all  appointments  thereafter,  except  to  fill  vacancies, 
shall  be  made  for  eight  years. 

§ 3.  Before  entering  upon  their  duties,  the  said  commissioners 
shall  respectively  take  and  subscribe  to  the  constitutional  oath 
required  of  other  State  officers,  which  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of 
the  secretary  of  State  wdio  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to 
administer  such  oath.  The  said  commissioners  shall  have  power 
to  elect  a president  out  of  its  own  number,  and  such  other  officers 
and  agents  as  it  may  deem  proper,  and  to  adopt  such  by-laws  and 


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regulations  for  the  transaction  of  its  business  and  the  management- 
of  its  affairs  as  it  may  consider  expedient. 

§ 4.  The  said  commissioners  shall  have  full  power  at  all  times  to 
look  into  and  examine  the  condition  of  the  several  institutions 
which  they  may  be  authorized  by  this  act  to  visit,  financially  and 
otherwise;  to  inquire  and  examine  into  their  methods  of  instruc- 
tion, and  the  government  and  management  of  their  inmates  ; the 
official  conduct  of  trustees,  directors  and  other  officers  and  em- 
])loyes  of  the  same;  the  condition  of  tlie  buildings,  grounds  and 
other  property  connected  therewith,  and  into  all  other  matters 
pertaining  to  their  usefulness  and  good  management;  and  for  these 
purposes  they  shall  have  free  access  to  the  grounds,  buildings  and 
all  books  and  papers  relating  to  said  institutions  ; and  all  persons, 
now  or  hereafter  in  any  manner  connected  with  the  same,  are 
hereby  directed  and  required  to  give  such  inforujation,  and  afford 
such  facilities  for  inspection,  as  the  said  commissioners  may  require  ; 
and  any  neglect  or  refusal  on  the  part  of  any  officer  or  person  con- 
nected with  such  institution,  to  comply  with  the  requirement?  of 
this  section,  shall  subject  the  offender  jto  a penalty  of  two  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars,  to  be  sued  for  and  collected  by  the  said  commis- 
sioners in  their  name  of  office. 

§ 5.  The  said  commissioners,  or  some  one  of  them,  are  hereby 
authorized  and  required,  at  least  once  in  each  year,  and  as  much 
oftener  as  they  may  deem  necessary,  to  visit  all  the  charitable  and 
correctional  institutions  of  the  State,  excepting  prisons,  receiving 
State  aid,  and  ascertain  whether  the  moneys  appropriated  for  their 
aid  are  or  have  been  economically  and  judiciously  expended  ; 
whether  the  objects  of  the  several  institutions  are  accomplished ; 
whether  the  laws  in  relation  to  them  are  fully  complied  with ; 
whether  all  parts  of  the  State  are  equally  benefited  by  said  institu- 
tions, and  the  various  other  matters  referred  to  in  the  fourth  section 
of  this  act ; and  report  in  writing  to  the  legislature,  at  the  opening 
of  each  annual  session  of  the  same,  the  result  of  their  investigations, 
together  with  such  other  information  and  recommendations  as  thev 
may  deem  proper. 

§ 6.  The  said  commissioners,  or  some  one  of  them,  shall  also,  at 
least  once  during  the  first  two  years  of  their  appointment,  and  also 
at  least  once  during  each  two  years  thereafter,  visit  and  examine 
into  the  condition  of  each  of  the  city  and  county  alms  or  poor-  ^ 


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houses,  and  shall  possess  all  the  powers  relative  thereto,  as  men- 
tioned In  the  fourth  section  of  this  act ; and  shall  report  to  the 
legislature,  in  writing,  the  result  of  their  examination,  in  connec- 
tion with  the  annual  report  above  mentioned. 

§ 7.  Whenever  any  charitable  or  correctional  institution,  subject 
to  the  inspection  herein  provided  for,  require  State  aid  for  any 
purpose  other  than  their  usual  expenses,  the  said  commissioners,  or 
some  or  one  of  them,  shall  inquire  carefully  and  fully  into  the  ground 
of  such  want,  the  purpose  or  purposes  for  which  it  proposes  to  use 
the  same,  the  amount  which  will  be  required  to  accomplish  the 
desired  object,  and  into  any  other  matters  connected  therewith  ; 
and  in  the  annual  report  of  each  year  they  shall  give  the  result  of 
such  inquiries,  together  with  their  own  opinions  and  conclusions 
relating  to  the  whole  subject. 

§ 8.  The  said  commissioners,  or  any  one  of  them,  are  hereby 
authorized  to  administer  oaths  and  examine  any  person  or  persons 
in  relation  to  any  matters  connected  with  the  inquiries  authorized 
by  this  act. 

§ 9.  The  said  board  of  commissioners  shall  have  power  and  they 
are  hereby  authorized  to  appoint  a clerk,  who  shall  hold  his  office 
during  their  pleasure,  with  a salary  not  exceeding  fifteen  hundred 
dollars  per  annum,  who  shall,  when  required,  act  as  an  accountant, 
from  time  to  time,  as  they  may  have  occasion  to  investigate  the 
financial  or  other  affairs  of  any  of  the  institutions  affected  by  this 
act,  or  the  accounts  or  official  conduct  of  any  of  their  officers ; and 
when  acting  as  such  accountant,  he  shall,  in  addition,  be  allowed 
his  actual  traveling  expenses. 

§ 10.  The  trustees  of  the  capitol,  or,  in  case  of  their  inability, 
the  trustees  of  the  new  State  hall,  shall  assign  to  the  said  board  a 
suitable  room  for  their  accommodation. 

§ 11.  The  said  commissioners,  or  some  or  any  one  of  them,  shall 
attend  upon  the  sessions  of  the  legislature  whenever  any  committee 
of  either  house  shall  require  their  attendance. 

§ 12.  The  said  board  of  commissioners  shall  be  furnished  by  the 
comptroller  with  journal,  account  books,  blanks  and  stationery. 

§ 13.  The  said  commissioners  shall  receive  no  compensation  for 
their  time  or  services,  but  the  actual  expenses  of  each  one  of  them, 
while  engaged  in  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  their  office,  and 
any  actual  outlay  for  any  necessary  aid  or  assistance  required  in 


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examinations  or  investigations,  on  being  made  out  and  verified  by 
the  affidavit  of  the  commissioner  making  the  charge,  shall  be  paid 
quarterly  by  the  treasurer,  on  the  warrant  of  the  comptroller,  out 
of  any  moneys  in  the  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  and  the 
clerk  of  the  board  shall  be  paid  in  like  manner. 

§ 14.  JSTo  member  of  the  board  of  said  commissioners  shall  be, 
directly  or  indirectly,  interested  in  any  contract  for  building, 
repairing  or  furnishing  any  of  the  institutions  which  by  this  act 
they  are  authorized  to  visit  and  inspect,  nor  shall  any  trustee  or 
other  officers  of  any  of  the  institutions  embraced  in  this  act  be 
eligible  to  the  office  of  commissioner  hereby  created. 

§ 15.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


[Laws  of  1868.] 

Chapter  717. 

An  Act  making  appropriation  for  certain  expenses  of 
government,  and  for  supplying  deficiencies  in  former 
appropriations. 

Passed  May  8,  1868;  three-fifths  being  present. 

The  Peo])le  of  the  State  of  New  Yorh^  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly^  do  enact  as  folloios : 

[extract.] 

For  the  board  of  State  commissioners  of  public  charities,  for 
expenses,  two  thousand  dollars. 


[Laws  of  1869.] 

Chapter  645. 

An  Act  making  appropriations  for  the  support  of  gov- 
ernment 

Passed  May  6,  1869;  three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows : 

[extract.] 

For  the  commissioners  of  public  charities,  for  the  salary  of  the 
secretary,  twenty-five  hundred  dollars,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may 


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be  fixed  by  the  board ; for  office  rent,  stationery,  fuel,  lights  and 
contingencies,  twelve  hundred  dollars. 

For  the  commissioners  of  public  charities  for  traveling  expenses 
of  the  commissioners  and  secretary,  and  for  clerk  hire,  two  thou- 
sand five  hundred  dollars. 


Chapter  822. 

An  Act  making  appropriations  for  certain  expenses  of 
government,  and  for  supplying  deficiencies  in  former 
appropriations. 

Passed  May  10, 1869 ; three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  Yorh.  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly^  do  enact  as  follovjs  : 

[extract.] 

For  the  board  of  commissioners  of  public  charities  for  the 
State,  for  salary  of  clerk,  one  thousand  five  hundred  dollars;  for 
expenses,  one  thousand  two  hundred  dollars,  and  for  extra  compen- 
sation, three  hundred  and  seventy-five  dollars. 


[Laws  of  1870.] 

Chapter  281. 

An  Act  making  appropriations  for  the  support  of  govern- 
ment. 

Passed  April  19, 1870  ; three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  Yorh,  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly,  do  enact  as  folloios : 

[extract.] 

For  the  State  commissioners  of  public  charities,  for  the  salary 
of  the  secretary,  twenty-five  hundred  dollars  ; for  traveling  expenses 
of  the  commissioners  and  secretary,  for  office  rent,  clerk  hire, 
stationery,  lights,  fuel  and  contingencies,  three  thousand  dollars. 
The  lieutenant-governor,  secretary  of  State,  comptroller  and 
attorney-general,  are  hereby  constituted  members  ex  officio  of  the 
said  State  commissioners  of  public  charities. 


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[Laws  of  1871.1 

Chapter  713. 

An  Act  in  relation  to  the  Chronic  Pauper  Insane. 

Passed  April  25,  1871 ; three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  Yorh^  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly^  do  67} act  as  follows : 

Section  1.  The  board  of  State  commissioners  of  public  charities 
are  hereby  authorized  to  heai’  and  determine  all  applications  which 
may  be  made  to  them,  in  writing,  by  the  county  superintendents  of 
the  poor  of  the  several  counties  of  this  State,  for  exemption  from 
the  operation  of  the  tenth  section  of  the  act  entitled  “ An  act  to 
authorize  the  establishment  of  a State  asylum  for  the  chronic  insane, 
and  for  the  better  care  of  the  insane  poor,”  to  be  known  as  The 
Willard  Asylum  for  the  Insane,”  passed  April  eighth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-five.  And  whenever  said  board  on  such  appli- 
cation shall  determine  that  the  buildings  and  means  employed  to 
take  care  of  the  chronic  pauper  insane  of  such  county  are  sufficient 
and  proper  for  the  time  being  for  such  purpose,  and  shall  file  the 
same  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  county  making  such  applica- 
tion, then  and  in  that  case,  and  until  such  determination  shall  be 
revoked  as  hereinafter  mentioned  and  provided,  the  county  super- 
intendents of  the  poor  of  such  county  shall  be  relieved  from  send- 
ing the  chronic  pauper  insane  of  such  county  to  the  Willard 
Asylum  for  the  Insane,  as  now  provided  by  law.  Said  board  may 
at  any  time  revoke  such  determination,  but  such  revocation  must 
be  made  in  writiyg,  signed  by  said  board,  and  filed  in  the  county 
clerk’s  office  of  the  county  making  such  application,  and  notice 
tliereof  given  in  writing  to  the  county  superintendents  of  the 
poor  of  such  county,  and  upon  the  filing  of  the  same  tlie  said 
county  superintendents  of  the  poor  of  such  county  shall  from 
thenceforward  be  again  subject  to  the  provisions  and  operations  of 
tlie  said  act. 

§ 2.  The  board  of  State  commissioners  of  public  charities  are 
hereby  authorized  and  required,  whenever  they  shall  be  satisfied 
that  the  provisions  made  for  the  chronic  insane  in  a county  poor- 
house  is  inadequate  and  unsuitable,  to  direct  the  superintendents 
of  the  poor  of  such  county  to  remove  the  chronic  insane  of  that 


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county  to  the  Willard  Asylum  for  the  Insane  within  ten  days 
after  receiving  a written  or  printed  notice  to  make  such  removal. 
§ 3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


Chapter  699. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  taking  testimony  in  certain  mat- 
ters relating  to  State  charitable  institutions. 

Passed  April  25,  1871  ; three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  Yovh^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  Whenever  the  State  board  of  commissioners  of 
public  charities,  or  the  managers,  directors  or  trustees  of  any 
asylum,  hospital,  or  other  charitable  institution,  the  managers, 
directors  or  trustees  of  which  are  appointed  by  the  Governor  and 
senate,  or  by  the  legislature,  shall  deem  it  necessary  or  proper  to 
investigate  and  ascertain  the  truth  of  any  charge  or  complaint 
made  or  circulated  respecting  the  conduct  of  the  superintendent, 
assistants,  subordinate  officers  or  servants,  in  whatever  capacity, 
or  duty,  employed  by  or  under  the  official  control  of  any  such 
board,  managers,  directors  or  trustees,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the 
presiding  officer  for  the  time  being  of  any  such  board,  managers, 
directors  or  trustees,  to  administer  oaths  to  all  witnesses  coming 
before  them  respectively  for  examination,  and  to  issue  compulsory 
process  for  the  attendance  of  any  witness  within  the  State  whom 
they  may  respectively  desire  to  examine,  and  for  the  production 
of  all  papers  that  any  such  witness  may  possess,  or  have  in  his 
power,  touching  the  matter  of  such  complaint  or  investigation  ; 
and  willful  false  swearing  by  any  witness  who  may  be  so  examined 
is  hereby  declared  to  ])e  perjury. 

§ 2.  All  persons  examined  as  witnesses  under  the  first  section  of 
this  act  shall  be  paid  the  same  fees  as  are  now  paid  to  witnesses  in 
the  supreme  court  by  the  said  board,  managers,  directors  or  trus- 
tees, authorizing  the  issuing  of  such  compulsory  process. 

§ 3.  Any  person  willfully  neglecting  to  obey  any  subpoena  or 
citation  to  testify  or  produce  papers,  as  provided  in  this  act,  shall 


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be  liable  to  a penalty  of  one  hundred  dollars,  to  be  recovered,  with 
costs  of  suit,  before  any  court  having  cognizance  thereof. 


Chapter  718. 

An  Act  making  appropriations  for  the  support  of  govern' 

ment. 

Passed  April  26,  1871 ; three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows : 

[extract.] 

For  the  State  commissioners  of  public  charities,  for  the  salary  of 
the  secretary,  twenty-live  hundred  dollars;  for  traveling  expenses 
of  the  commissioners  and  secretary,  for  office  rent,  clerk  hire, 
stationery,  lights,  fuel  and  contingencies,  three  thousand  dollars. 


[Laws  of  1872.] 

Chapter  641. 

An  Act  making  appropriations  for  the  support  of  govern- 
ment. 

Passed  May  6,  1872;  three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows : 

[extract.] 

STATE  COMMISSIONERS  OF  PUBLIC  CHARITIES. 

For  the  salary  of  the  secretary  of  the  commissioners  of  public 
charities,  twenty-live  hundred  dollars,  and  for  the  traveling  expenses 
of  the  commissioners  and  the  secretary,  and  for  office  expenses,  clerk 
hire  and  contingencies  of  the  State  commissioners  of  public  chari- 
ties, two  thousand  live  hundred  dollars. 


1] 


[Laws  of  1873.] 

Chapter  671. 

An  Act  further  to  define  the  powers  and  duties  of  the 
board  of  State  commissioners  of  public  charities,  and 
to  change  the  name  of  the  board  to  the  State  board  of 
charities. 

Passed  May  21,  1873. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  represe\ited  rOt  Senate 
and  Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows : 

Section  1.  The  commissioners  now  in  office,  appointed  pursuant 
to  tlie  act  entitled  ‘^An  act  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of  a 
board  of  commissioners  of  public  charities  and  defining  their 
duties  and  powers,”  passed  May  twenty-third,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty  seven,  and  their  successors  to  be  hereafter  appointed, 
shall  constitute  a board  to  be  called  The  State  Board  of  Chari- 
ties,” and  such  board  and  commissioners  shall  have  the  powers 
conferred  by  said  law  and  all  amendments  thereof,  together  with 
such  further  powers  and  duties  as  are  hereinafter  mentioned  ; and 
all  provisions  of  said  laws  not  inconsistent  herewith  shall  apply  to 
said  board  and  to  the  said  commissioners  respectively.  Such  a 
board  shall  cause  a record  to  be  kept  of  its  proceedings  by  its 
secretary  or  other  proper  officer.  It  shall  have  power  to  make  and 
use  an  official  seal  and  alter  the  same  at  pleasure,  and  its  proceed- 
ings and  copies  of  all  papers  and  documents  in  its  possession  or 
custody  may  be  authenticated  in  the  usual  form,  under  its  official 
seal  and  the  signature  of  its  president  and  secretary,  which  may 
be  used  as  evidence  in  all  courts  and  places  in  this  State,  in  like 
manner  as  similar  certificates  by  the  secretary  of  State  or  any 
other  public  officer. 

§ 2.  Such  board  may,  by  its  orders,  from  time  to  time,  define 
the  duties  of  its  officers,  and  regulate  the  discharge  of  its  functions  ; 
and  shall,  also,  provide  for  the  holding  of  at  least  four  meetings 
during  each  year,  which  shall  be  public.  Six  members  of  the 
board,  regularly  convened,  shall  constitute  a quorum.  The  failure 
on  the  part  of  any  commissioner  appointed  as  aforesaid  to  attend 
any  three  successive  public  meetings  of  the  board  above  provided 
for,  during  any  calendar  year,  may  be  treated  by  the  governor  as  a 


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resignation  by  such  non-attending  commissioner,  and  the  vacancy 
be  tilled  ; and  the  annual  reports  of  said  board  shall  give  the 
names  of  each  commissioner  present  at  each  of  the  said  public 
meetings  of  the  board. 

§ 3.  One  additional  member  of  said  board,  who  shall  reside  in 
the  county  of  Kings,  and  two  who  shall  reside  in  the  county  Kew 
York,  shall  be  appointed  for  the  term  of  eight  years,  in  the  same 
manner  as  is  provided  in  respect  to  the  present  commissioners. 

§ 4.  The  said  board  or  any  one  or  more  of  said  commissioners, 
are  hereby  authorized,  whenever  they  may  deem  it  expedient,  to 
visit  and  inspect  any  charitable,  eleemosynary,  correctional  or 
reformatory  institution  in  this  State,  excepting  prisons,  whether 
receiving  State  aid  or  maintained  by  municipalities  or  otherwise, 
and  also  to  visit  and  inspect  any  incorporated  or  private  asylums, 
institutions,  homes  or  retreats,  licensed  for  the  detention,  treatment 
and  care  of  the  insane  or  persons  of  unsound  mind,  as  hereinafter 
provided  for. 

§ 5.  If,  in  the  opinion  of  said  board,  or  an  y three  members  thereof, 
any  matter  in  regard  to  the  management  or  affairs  of  any  institu- 
tion, subject  to  the  visitation  of  said  board,  or  to  any  inmate  of  any 
such  institution,  or  person  in  any  way  connected  therewith,  requires 
legal  investigation  or  action  of  any  kind,  notice  thereof  may  be 
given  by  the  board  or  any  three  members  thereof  to  the  attorney- 
general ; and  it  shall  be  his  duty  thereupon  to  make  inquiry  and 
take  such  proceedings  in  the  premises  as  he  may  deem  necessary 
and  proper,  and  to  report  his  action  and  the  results  thereof  to  the 
said  board  without  delay. 

§ 6.  Said  board  shall  have  authority  to  require  from  the  man- 
agers and  from  the  officers  in  charge  of  any  institution  it  is  author- 
ized to  visit,  any  information  which  said  board  may  require  in  the 
discharge  of  its  duties,  and  may  prepare  regulations  according  to 
which  and  provide  blanks  upon  which  such  information  shall  be 
furnished  by  any  such  officer  and  managers  in  a clear,  uniform 
and  prompt  manner,  for  use  by  such  board. 

§ 7.  The  said  board  shall  be  authorized  to  collect  (and  as  far  as 
it  may  think  advantageous  to  embody  in  its  annual  reports)  such 
information,  botli  in  this  State  and  elsewhere,  as  it  may  deem 
proper,  relating  to  the  best  manner  ot‘  dealing  with  those  who 
require  assistance  from  the  public  funds,  or  who  receive  aid  from 


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private  charity  ; and  to  make  such  suggestions,  from  time  to  time, 
as  to  any  legislation  or  action  which  may  be  desirable  in  regard 
thereto.  The  said  board  may  also,  from  time  to  time,  in  its  reports 
to  the  legislature,  pi'esent  such  views  in  regard  to  the  best  method 
of  caring  for  the  pauper  and  destitute  cliildren  distributed  through 
the  various  institutions  of  this  State,  or  are  without  the  instruction 
and  guidance  which  the  public  welfare  demands  ; and  also  to  fur- 
nish in  tabulated  statements,  as  nearly  as  possible,  the  numbers, 
sex,  age  and  nativity  of  those  in  this  State,  and  in  the  several 
counties  thereof,  which  are  in  any  way  receiving  the  aid  of  public 
or  private  organized  charity,  with  any  other  particulars  they  may 
deem  ]^roper. 

§ S.  The  said  board  shall  have  power,  by  a resolution  to  be 
entered  on  its  minutes,  subject  to  such  terms  and  regulations  as  it 
may  prescribe,  to  designate  three  or  more  suitable  persons  in  any 
county  to  act  as  visitors,  in  said  county,  of  tlie  several  poor-houses 
and  other  institutions  therein,  subject  to  the  visitation  of  the  board, 
in  aid  of  and  as  representatives  of  said  board,  except  such  institu- 
tions as  have  a board  of  managers  appointed  by  the  State;  and  all 
officers  and  others  in  charge  of  such  institutions  shall  admit  to  said 
institutions  all  such  persons  so  designated,  upon  a production  of  a 
copy  of  such  resolution,  certified  by  the  president  or  secretary  of 
said  board,  to  visit,  exan}ine  and  inspect  the  grounds  and  build- 
ings of  every  institution,  and  every  part  thereof,  and  all  its  hos- 
pital and  other  arrangements,  and  to  have  free  access  to  all  its 
inmates.  Any  officer,  superintendent  or  person  in  charge  of  any 
such  institution,  who  shall  refuse  to  admit  any  person  so  designated, 
or  shall  refuse  to  give  said  visitors  all  requisite  facilities  for  the 
examination  and  inspection  as  herein  provided  for,  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  a penalty  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  for  each  such 
refusal,  which  penalty  may  be  sued  for  and  recovered  in  the  name 
of  the  people  of  the  State,  by  the  attorney-general,  and  the  sum 
so  recovered  shall  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  this  State. 

§ 9.  No  person,  association  or  corporation  shall  establish  or  keep 
an  asylum,  institution,  house  or  retreat  for  the  care  custody  or 
treatment  of  the  insane,  or  persons  of  unsound  mind,  without  first 
obtaining  a license  therefor  from  the  said  State  board  of  charities, 
provided  that  all  persons,  associations  or  corporations  who,  at  the 
time  of  the  passage  of  this  act,  are  engaged  in  keeping  such 


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asylums,  institutions,  houses  or  retreats,  or  in  keeping  insane  per- 
sons, or  persons  of  unsound  mind,  for  compensation  or  hire,  shall 
obtain  such  license  within  three  months  thereafter;  and  provided 
further,  that  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  any  State  asylum  or 
institution,  or  any  asylum  or  institution  established  or  conducted 
by  any  county,  or  by  any  city  or  municipal  corporation  chartered 
by  the  legislature  ; and  provided,  also,  that  it  shall  not  apply  to 
cases  where  insane  persons,  or  persons  of  unsound  mind,  are 
detained  and  treated  at  the  houses  of  their  families  or  relatives. 

§ 10.  Every  application  for  such  license  shall  be  accompanied  by 
a plan  of  the  premises  proposed  to  be  occupied,  to  be  drawn  on  a 
scale  of  not  less  than  one-eighth  of  an  inch  to  a foot,  with  a descrip- 
tion of  the  situation  thereof,  and  the  length,  breadth  and  height  of, 
and  a reference  by  figure  or  letter  to  every  room  and  apartment 
therein,  and  a statement  of  the  quantity  of  land  not  covered  by  any 
building  annexed  to  such  liouse  and  appropriated  to  the  exclusive 
use,  exei’cise  and  recreation  of  the  patients  proposed  to  be  received 
therein,  and  also  a statement  of  the  number  of  patients  proposed 
to  be  received  into  such  house,  and  whether  the  license  so  applied 
for  is  for  the  reception  of  male  or  female  patients,  or  for  both,  and 
if  for  the  recej)tion  of  both,  of  the  number  of  each  sex  proposed  to 
be  received  into  such  house,  and  for  the  means  by  which  the  one 
sex  may  be  kept  distinct  and  apart  from  the  other.  And  it  shall 
not  be  lawful  for  said  board  to  grant  any  such  license  without  hav- 
ing first,  either  collectively  or  by  a comitiittee  thereof,  visited  the 
premises  proposed  to  be  licensed,  and,  being  satisfied  by  such  exam- 
ination that  they  conform  to  the  description  of  the  application,  and 
are  otherwise  fit  and  suitable  for  the  purposes  for  which  they  are 
designed  to  be  used. 

§ 11.  Whenever  said  State  board  of  cliarities,  upon  the  applica- 
tion of  any  person,  association  or  corporation,  made  as  provided  by 
the  preceding  section  of  this  act,  and  examination  of  the  building 
and  means  employed,  or  proposed  to  be  employed,  to  take  the  care 
of  insane  persons,  or  persons  of  unsound  mind,  by  such  person,  asso- 
ciation or  corporation,  shall  determine  that  the  same  are  sufficient 
and  proper  for  such  purpose,  the  said  board  is  hereby  authorized 
and  required  to  grant  such  license,  and  to  make  such  conditions, 
terms  and  regulations,  in  regard  thereto,  as  shall  seem  meet  and 
proper  for  the  care  and  protection,  health  and  comfort,  and  for  the 


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inspection  and  examination  of  all  insane  persons,  or  persons  of 
unsound  mind,  so  lodged,  boarded,  kept  or  detained  in  such  asy- 
lum or  institution,  and  of  all  insane  persons,  or  persons  of  unsound 
mind,  in  the  charge  or  keeping  of  such  person,  association  or  cor- 
poration ; which  said  license  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  clerk 
of  the  county  in  which  such  asylum  or  institution  is  situated.  The 
said  board  may  revoke  the  license  of  any  asylum  or  institution, 
issued  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  for  reasons  deemed  satis- 
factory to  said  board  ; but  such  revocation  shall  be  in  writing  and 
filed  as  aforesaid,  and  notice  thereof  given  in  writing  to  the  per- 
son, association  or  corporation  to  wliom  such  license  was  given. 

§ 12.  After  the  expiration  of  three  months  from  the  passage  of 
this  act,  any  ])erson  or  persons  who  shall  conduct  or  maintain  any 
private  insane  asylum  or  institution,  and  the  officers  of  any  corpo- 
ration who  shall  conduct  or  maintain  such  private  asylum  or  insti- 
tution without  having  obtained  a license  as  herein  provided,  or  for 
more  than  thirty  days  after  the  revocation  of  such  license,  or  shall 
receive  any  patient  after  notice  of  such  revocation,  shall  be  guilty 
of  a misdemeanor,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  district  attorney 
of  the  proper  county  to  proceed  against  such  offender  as  may  be 
provided  by  law. 

§ 13.  The  governor  shall  nominate,  und  by  and  wdth  the  advice 
and  consent  of  the  senate,  appoint  an  experienced  and  competent 
physician,  to  be  called  the  State  Commissioner  in  Lunacy,  who  shall 
hold  his  office  for  five  years,  and  receive  an  annual  salary  of  four 
thousand  dollars,  and  traveling  expenses  not  to  exceed  one  thousand 
dollars,  to  be  paid  on  presentation  of  vouchers  to  the  comptroller; 
and  who  shall  ex-officio  be  a member  of  the  State  board  of  charities, 
and  shall  make  full  report  of  all  his  official  acts  and  visitations  to 
the  said  board,  from  time  to  time,  under  such  regulations  as  the 
said  board  may  prescribe.  The  said  board  shall  furnish  such 
assistance  as  the  said  commissioner  may,  in  their  opinion,  require 
to  aid  him  in  the  proper  and  efficient  discharge  of  the  duties  of  his 
office.  {See  chapter  446,  title  10,  of  the  Lavjs  of  1874.) 

§ 14.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  commissioner  to  examine  into 
and  report  to  said  board  the  condition  of  the  insane  and  idiotic  in 
this  State,  and  the  management  and  conduct  of  the  asylums  and 
other  institutions  for  their  custody.  The  duties  of  said  commis- 
sioner and  those  of  said  board  in  regard  to  the  insane  shall  be  per- 


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formed,  as  far  as  practicable,  so  as  not  to  prejudice  the  established 
and  reasonable  regulations  of  such  asylums  and  institutions  afore 
said  ; and  it  sliall  be  the  duty  of  the  officers  and  others  respectively 
in  charge  thereof  to  give  the  members  of  said  board  and  such  com- 
missioner at  all  times  free  access  to  and  full  information  concerning 
the  insane  and  their  treatment  therein.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty 
of  such  commissioner,  under  the  direction  of  said  board,  to  inquire 
and  report,  from  time  to  time,  as  far  as  he  may  be  able,  the  results 
of  the  treatment  of  the  insane  of  other  States  and  countries,  to- 
gether with  such  particulars  pertaining  thereto  as  he  may  deem 
proper,  or  the  said  board  may  require ; and  he  shall  perform  such 
other  duties  as  the  board  may,  from  time  to  time,  prescribe.  The 
authority  conferred  upon  said  board  and  commissioners  to  issue 
compulsory  process  for  the  attendance  of  witnesses,  administer 
oaths  and  to  examine  persons  under  oath,  is  hereby  conferred  upon 
said  commissioner  of  lunacy  in  all  cases  where  there  is,  in  the 
opinion  of  the  board  or  said  commissioner,  from  information  given 
to  the  board  or  to  the  said  commissioner,  or  otherwise,  reason  to 
believe  that  any  person  is  unjustly  deprived  of  liberty,  or  is  im- 
properly treated  in  any  asylum,  institution  or  establishmetit  in  this 
State  for  the  custody  of  the  insane,  and  he  shall  report  the  testi- 
timony  taken  in  any  investigation  to  the  said  board  with  his 
opinions  and  conclusions  thereon  without  delay.  The  said  board 
of  commissioners  may,  in  their  report,  from  time  to  time,  to  the 
legislature,  suggest  any  improvements  they  think  desirable  for  the 
care  and  treatment  of  the  insane,  with  such  facts  and  information 
pertaining  thereto  as  they  deem  expedient  and  proper,  and  such 
report  shall  be  made  annually  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of 
January.  {Same  reference  as  last  section.) 

§ 15.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


CONCURRENT  RESOLUTION, 

Directing  the  Board  of  State  Commissioners  of  Public 
Charities  to  examine  into  the  causes  of  the  increase  of 
crime,  pauperism  and  insanity. 

Whereas^  It  is  well  known  that  there  is  a vast  increase  of  crime 
and  pauperism  in  this  State;  and. 

Whereas^  It  is  desirable  to  have  statistics  in  concise  form,  which 


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shall  show  the  various  influences  that  are  producing  these  effects  ; 
and, 

Whereas^  It  is  important  to  the  tax-payers  of  the  State  that  they 
be  in  possession  of  said  information;  therefore 

Resolved  (if  the  Senate  concur),  That  the  board  of  State  com- 
missioners of  public  charities  be  directed  to  examine  into  the  causes 
of  the  increase  of  crime,  pauperism  and  insanity,  with  power  to 
examine  the  records  of  all  public  institutions,  and  institute  incpiiries, 
and  for  this  purpose  are  authorized  to  employ  such  clerical  aid  as 
may  be  necessary  for  that  purpose,  and  submit  tbeir  report  to  the 
next  legislature,  and  without  additional  expense  to  the  State,  except 
for  services  of  a stenographer,  who  shall  perform  tlie  duties  of  both 
stenographer  and  clerk,  at  the  usual  compensation. 

STATE  OF  NEW  YOKE,  [ 

In  Assembly,  May  27,  1873,  j 

The  foregoing  resolution  was  duly  yjassed. 

By  order  of  the  Assembly. 

JOHN  O’DONNELL, 

Clerk. 

STATE  OF  NEW  YORK,  ) 

In  Senate,  May  29,  1873.  f 

The  foregoing  resolution  was  duly  passed. 

By  order  of  the  Senate. 

CHAS.  R.  DAYTON, 

Clerk. 


Chapter  643. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  support  of  government,  and 
for  other  purposes. 

Passed  May  29,  1873  ; three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows  : 

[extract.] 

STATE  COMMISSIONERS  OF  PUBLIC  CHARITIES. 

For  the  salary  of  the  secretary  of  the  commissioners  of  public 
charities,  twenty-flve  hundred  dollars;  and  for  the  traveling 
2 


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expenses  of  the  commissioners  and  the  secretary,  and  for  office 
expenses,  clerk  hire  and  contingencies  of  the  State  commissioners 
of  public  charities,  two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars. 


Chapter  661. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  support  and  care  of  State 

paupers. 

Passed  June  7,  1873 ; three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  Yoi\  represented  in  Senate  ai^d 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  Every  poor  person  who  is  blind,  lame,  old,  impotent 
or  decrepit,  or  in  any  otlier  way  disabled  or  enfeebled,  so  as  to  be 
unable  by  work  to  maintain  himself,  who  shall  apply  for  aid  to  any 
superintendent  or  overseer  of  the  poor  or  otlier  officer  charged 
with  the  support  and  relief  of  indigent  persons,  and  who  shall  not 
have  resided  sixty  days  in  any  county  of  this  State  within  one  year 
preceding  the  time  of  such  application,  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a 
State  pauper,  and  shall  be  maintained  as  hereinafter  provided. 

§ 2.  The  State  board  of  charities  is  hereby  authorized,  from  time 
to  time,  on  behalf  of  the  State,  to  contract,  for  such  time  and  on 
such  terms  as  it  may  deem  proper,  with  the  authorities  of  not  more 
than  five  counties  or  cities  of  this  State,  for  the  reception  and 
support,  in  the  poor-houses  or  other  suitable  buildings  of  such  • 
counties  or  cities  respectively,  of  such  paupers  as  may  be  committed 
to  such  poor-houses  as  provided  by  this  act.  The  said  board  may 
establish  rules  and  regulations  for  the  discipline,  employment, 
treatment  and  care  of  such  paupers  and  for  their  discharge.  Every 
such  contract  shall  be  in  writing,  and  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the 
said  board.  The  poor-houses  or  other  buildings  so  contracted  for,  • 
with  the  authorities  of  any  county  or  city,  while  used  for  the  pur- 
poses herein  mentioned,  shall  be  appropriately  designated  by  the 
said  board,  and  shall  be  known  as  State  alms-houses.  The  said 
board  may  from  time  to  time  direct  the  transfer  of  any  such 
paupers  from  one  alms-house  to  another,  and  may  give  notice,  from 
time  to  time,  to  counties  to  which  alms-house  they  shall  send 
paupers. 


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§ 3.  The  said  board  shall  give  notice  to  the  county  clerks  of  the 
several  counties  of  this  State  of  tlie  location  of  each  of  such  alms- 
houses, who  thereupon  shall  cause  such  notice  to  be  dnly  promul- 
gated to  the  superintendents  and  overseers  of  the  poor  and  other 
officers  charged  with  the  support  and  relief  of  indigent  persons  in 
their  respective  counties.  A circular  from  the  secretary  of  said 
board  shall  accompany  such  notice  to  each  county  clerk,  giving  all 
necessary  information  respecting  the  commitment,  support  and 
care  of  State  paupers  in  such  alms-houses,  according  to  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act. 

§ 4.  The  county  judge  and  justices  of  the  peace  of  the  several 
counties  of  tliis  State,  and  all  police  justices,  upon  the  application 
of  any  superintendent  or  overseer  of  the  poor,  or  other  officer 
charged  with  tlie  support  and  relief  of  indigent  persons,  and  on 
satisfactory  proof  being  made  tliat  the  person  applying  to  such 
officer  for  relief  is  a State  pauper,  as  defined  by  the  first  section  of 
this  act,  shall  by  warrant  directed  to  such  officer,  or  other  suitable 
person,  cause  such  pauper  to  be  removed  or  conveyed  to  the 
nearest  State  alms-house,  and  such  pauper  shall  be  maintained 
therein  until  duly  discharged.  The  application  and  all  testimony 
taken  in  any  such  proceeding,  and  the  order  for  the  issuing  of  any 
warrant  for  the  removal  of  any  such  pauper,  shall  be  filed  in  the 
office  of  the  clerk  of  the  county  in  which  such  proceeding  shall  be 
had,  and  a copy  of  the  same  shall  be  forwarded  by  mail,  within 
five  days  thereafter,  to  the  secretary  of  the  State  board  of  charities. 
A verified  statement  of  the  expenses  incurred  by  the  officer,  or 
other  person,  in  making  such  removal,  shall  be  presented  to  the 
officer  issuing  such  warrant,  who  shall  examine  and  audit  the  same, 
and  allow  such  expenses  as  have  been  actually  and  necessarily 
incurred  in  such  removal,  a copy  of  which  account  and  audit  shall 
be  filed  in  the  county  clerk’s  office.  All  such  accounts  for  expenses 
incurred  by  counties,  cities  and  towns,  by  reason  of  the  removal 
of  any  such  pauper,  shall  be  paid  by  the  treasurer  of  the  county  in 
which  such  expenses  were  incurred,  who  shall  render  a statement 
of  the  same  to  the  comptroller  on  or  before  the  third  Tuesday  in 
October,  annually,  and  which  statement  shall  include  all  claims 
for  such  charges  to  the  first  day  of  said  October,  and  the  same 
shall  be  reimbursed  by  the  State  treasurer,  on  the  warrant  of  the 
comptroller,  in  like  manner  as  other  claims  of  counties  against  the 


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State  are  now  by  law  reimbursed,  provided  that  no  payment  shall 
be  made  by  the  State  to  any  officer  or  other  person  for  their  time 
or  service  in  making  any  such  removal.  The  comptroller  may  re- 
quire such  accounts  to  be  accompanied  by  such  statement  of  par- 
ticulars and  facts,  and  substantiated  by  affidavit,  as  may  to  him 
seem  proper. 

§ 5.  The  expenses  for  the  support,  treatment  and  care  of  all 
persons  who  shall  be  sent  as  State  paupers  to  such  alms-hoiises, 
shall  be  paid  quarterly  on  the  first  days  of  January,  April,  July 
and  October  in  each  year,  to  tlie  treasurer  of  the  county,  or  proj^er 
city  officer  incurring  the  same,  by  the  treasurer  of  the  State  on  the 
warrant  of  the  comptroller,  but  no  such  expenses  shall  be  ])aid  to 
any  county  or  city  until  an  account  of  tlie  number  of  persons  thus 
supported,  and  the  time  that  each  shall  have  been  respectively 
maintained,  shall  have  been  rendered  in  due  form  and  approved  by 
the  State  board  of  charities. 

§ 6.  The  keeper  or  principal  officer  in  charge  of  each  and  all 
such  alms-houses  shall  enter  the  names  of  all  persons  received  by 
them  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  with  such  particulars  in 
reference  to  each  as  the  said  board,  from  time  to  time,  may  pre- 
scribe, together  with  the  names  of  the  officer  making  the  com- 
plaint, and  the  jndge  or  justice  by  whom  the  commitment  was 
made,  in  a book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose.  Within  three  days 
after  the  admission  of  any  such  person,  such  keeper  or  principal 
officer  shall  transmit  by  mail  the  name  of  such  person,  with  the 
particulars  hereinbefore  mentioned,  to  the  secretary  of  said  board  ; 
and  notice  of  the  death,  discharge  or  absconding  of  any  such 
person  shall,  in  like  manner,  and  within  the  time  above  named, 
be  thus  sent  to  said  secretary.  The  secretary  of  said  board  shall 
cause  the  names  of  the  paupers  in  each  of  said  alms-houses, 
furnished  as  above  provided  for,  to  be  entered  in  a book  to  be  kept 
for  that  purpose  in  the  office  of  said  board,  and  he  shall  verily  the 
correctness  thereof  by  comparison  with  the  books  kept  in  such 
alms-houses  as  aforesaid,  and  by  personal  examination  of  the  several 
inmates  thereof,  and  in  any  other  manner  the  board,  from  time  to 
time,  may  direct ; and  he  shall  furnish  the  said  board,  in  tabulated 
statements,  on  or  before  the  second  Tuesday  in  January,  annually, 
the  number  of  inmates  maintained  in  each  and  all  of  such  alms- 
houses during  the  preceding  year,  the  number  discharged,  trans- 


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ferred  to  other  institutions,  bound  out  or  removed  from  the  State, 
and  the  number  who  died  or  left  without  permission  during  the 
year,  with  such  other  particulars  and  information  as  the  board 
may  require. 

§ 7.  In  addition  to  the  visitation  of  the  secretary  of  said  board, 
as  hereinafter  provided  for,  the  said  board  shall  cause  each  of  such 
alms-houses  to  be  visited  periodically  by  some  member  or  members 
of  such  board,  who  shall  examine  into  the  condition  and  manage- 
ment of  said  alms-houses  respectively,  and  make  such  report 
thereof  to  the  said  board  as  may  be  deemed  proper. 

§ 8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  secretary  of  said  board  to  visit 
and  inspect  each  and  all  of  the  said  alms-houses  at  least  once  in 
every  three  months,  and  as  much  oftener  as  in  his  judgment  it  may 
be  expedient,  or  the  board  may  direct.  For  the  purposes  of  such 
inspections  the  said  secretary  shall  possess  all  the  powers  of  a 
member  of  the  said  board  and  also  such  further  powers  as  are  here- 
inafter mentioned.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  officer  in  charge  of 
each  and  every  such  alms-house  to  give  to  the  said  secretary  free 
access  to  all  parts  of  the  grounds,  buildings,  hospital  and  other 
arrangements  connected  therewith,  and  to  every  inmate  thereof,  and 
to  extend  to  him  the  same  facilities  for  the  inspection  of  such  alms- 
house and  its  inmates  as  is  required  by  law  to  be  extended  to  said 
board  and  commissioners,  and  in  default  thereof  he  shall  be  subject 
to  the  same  penalty  as  if  access  were  denied  to  any  member  of  said 
board. 

§ 9.  If  any  inmate  of  any  such  alms-house,  when  admitted,  is 
insane,  or  thereafter  becomes  insane  or  of  unsound  mind,  and  the 
accommodations  in  said  alms-house,  in  the  opinion  of  said  secretary, 
are  not  adequate  and  proper  for  his  treatment  and  care,  the  said 
secretary  may  cause  his  removal  to  the  appropriate  State  asylum 
for  insane,  and  he  shall  be  received  by  the  officer  in  charge  of  such 
asylum  and  be  maintained  therein  until  duly  discharged.  The 
expenses  for  the  support,  treatment  and  care  of  insane  persons  or 
persons  of  unsound  mind,  so  received  in  any  State  asylum,  shall  be 
paid  to  the  treasurer  thereof  by  the  treasurer  of  the  State,  on  the 
warrant  of  the  comptroller,  upon  the  account  being  duly  rendered 
and  certified  to  by  the  secretary  of  said  board;  provided,  however, 
that  such  expenses  shall  not  exceed  those  charged  to  counties,  cities 


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or  towns  for  the  support,  treatment  and  care  of  insane  persons  or 
persons  of  unsound  mind  in  such  asylum. 

§ 10.  When  any  child  under  ten  years  of  age  shall  be  committed 
to  any  such  alms-house,  the  said  secretary  in  his  discretion  may, 
cause  the  transfer  of  such  child  to  such  orphan  asylum  in  this  State 
as  he  may  deem  proper.  The  expenses  for  the  maintenance  and 
care  of  such  child  thereafter,  and  until  otherwise  provided  for,  shall 
be  paid  out  of  the  State  treasury  on  the  certificate  of  said  secretary, 
in  the  same  manner  as  provided  in  the  preceding  section  as  to  the 
maintenance  and  care  of  insane  persons  or  persons  of  unsound 
mind  ; 2)rovided,  that  such  expenses  shall  not  exceed  the  cost  of 
maintenance  of  such  child  in  said  alms-house.  The  said  secretary, 
also,  in  his  discretion,  may  bind  out  any  orphan  or  indigent  child 
which  may  be  committed  to  any  such  alms-house  or  may  be  placed 
in  any  orphan  asylum  as  aforesaid,  if  a male  child  under  twenty- 
one  years,  or  if  a female,  under  the  age  of  eighteen,  to  be  clerks, 
apprentices  or  servants  until  such  child,  if  a male,  be  twenty-one 
years  old,  or  if  a female,  shall  be  eighteen  years  old,  which  bind- 
ing shall  be  as  efiectual  as  if  such  child  had  bound  himself  with 
the  consent  of  his  father  or  other  legal  guardian. 

§ 11.  Any  person  becoming  an  inmate  of  any  such  alms-house, 
and  expressing  a ])reference  to  be  sent  to  any  State  or  country 
where  said  pauper  may  have  a legal  settlement  or  friends,  willing 
to  support  or  to  aid  in  supporting  him,  the  secretary  of  said  board 
may  cause  the  removal  of  such  pauper  to  such  State  or  country ; 
provided,  in  the  judgment  of  said  secretary,  the  interest  of  the 
State  and  the  welfare  of  the  pauper  will  be  promoted  thereby ; 
and  the  said  secretary  shall  report,  from  time  to  time,  to  said  board, 
the  names  of  all  persons,  removed  under  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
the  places  whence  removed,  and  the  cost  of  the  several  removals. 

§ 12.  The  said  secretary  of  the  said  State  board  of  charities, 
before  entering  upon  his  duties  under  this  act,  shall  take  and  sub- 
scribe the  constitutional  oath  of  office,  which  shall  be  filed  in  the 
office  of  tlie  secretary  of  State.  In  addition  to  the  powers  herein- 
before conferi-ed  upon  said  secretary,  he  shall  possess  and  exercise 
the  like  powers,  and  be  subject  to  the  like  duties  as  to  such  State 
])au})ers  as  su})erintendents  of  the  poor  exercise  and  are  subject  to 
in  the  care  and  support  of  county  paupers.  In  case  of  the  illness, 
absence,  or  other  inability  of  said  secretary,  from  any  cause,  to 


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perform  his  duties,  they  may  be  temporarily  performed  and  dis- 
charged by  any  other  person  or  persons  to  be  appointed  by  said 
board  for  such  purpose. 

§ 13.  If  any  inmate  of  either  of  said  alms-houses  shall  leave  the 
same  without  being  duly  discharged,  and  within  one  year  there- 
after is  found  in  any  city  or  town  of  this  State  soliciting  public  or 
private  aid,  he  may  be  punished  by  confinement  in  the  county 
jail  of  the  county  in  which  so  found,  for  a term  not  exceeding 
three  months,  or  he  may  be  committed  for  a like  term  to  any  work- 
house  of  this  State,  by  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction,  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  every  superintendent  and  overseer  of  the  poor 
and  other  officers  charged  with  the  support  and  relief  of  indigent 
persons,  to  cause,  as  far  as  may  be,  the  provisions  of  this  section  to 
be  enforced. 

§ 14.  The  terms  alms-house  ” and  “ State  alms-house,”  as  used 
in  this  act,  are  to  be  applied  to  the  county  or  city  poor-houses  or 
other  buildings  in  which  State  paupers  are  being  maintained,  as 
herein  provided  for ; the  words  superintendent  ” and  ‘‘  county 
superintendent  ” mean  county  superintendent  of  the  poor ; and 
the  words  ‘‘overseer”  and  “overseers  of  the  poor”  mean  town 
and  city  overseers  of  the  poor. 

§ 15.  The  sum  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  or  so  much 
thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  is  hereby  appropriated  to  be  paid  for 
the  purposes  of  this  act,  out  of  any  moneys  in  the  State  treasury 
not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  the  removal  of  paupers  and  their 
maintenance  and  care  as  herein  provided  for,  and  for  the  contin- 
gent and  miscellaneous  expenses  attending  the  execution  of  this 
act,  to  be  certified  and  allowed  by  the  said  State  board  of  charities. 

§ 16.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


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[Laws  of  1874.] 

Chapter  323. 

An  Act  making  appropriations  for  certain  expenses  of 
government,  and  supplying  deficiencies  in  former 
appropriations. 

Passed  May  5, 1874 ; by  a two-third  vote. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows : 

[exteact.] 

For  the  State  board  of  charities,  to  be  expended  as  the  said  board 
may  deem  proper,  under  the  joint  resolution  of  the  senate  and 
assembly  of  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-three,  in  regard  to  the 
causes  of  the  increase  of  crime,  pauperism  and  insanity,  the  sum 
of  three  thousand  dollars,  including  any  expenses  which  have  been 
already  incurred. 


Chapter  398. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  support  of  government  and  for 

other  purposes. 

Passed  May  9,  1874;  three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows : 

[exteact.] 

STATE  COMMISSIONEES  OF  PUBLIC  CHAEITIES. 

For  the  salary  of  the  secretary  of  the  State  board  of  charities, 
twenty-five  hundred  dollars  ; and  for  the  traveling  expenses  of  the 
commissioners  and  the  secretary,  and  for  office  expenses,  clerk  hire 
and  contingencies  of  tlie  State  board  of  charities,  two  tliousand 
five  hundred  dollars. 


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Chapter  446. 

An  Act  to  revise  and  consolidate  the  statutes  of  the 
State  relating  to  the  care  and  custody  of  the  insane ; 
the  management  of  the  asylums  for  their  treatment 
and  safe  keeping,  and  the  duties  of  the  State  commis- 
sioner in  lunacy. 

Passed  May  12,  1874;  three-fifths  being  present. 

The  Peojple  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 

[extract.] 

TITLE  FOURTH. 

THE  WILLARD  ASYLUM  FOR  THE  INSANE. 

§ 10.  The  chronic  pauper  insane  from  the  poor-houses  of  the 
counties  that  sliall  be  designated,  as  provided  in  section  two,  of 
this  article,  shall  be  sent  to  tlie  said  asylum  by  the  county  super- 
intendents of  the  poor,  and  all  the  chronic  insane  pauper  patients 
who  may  be  discharged  not  recovered  from  State  lunatic  asylums, 
and  who  continue  a public  charge,  shall  be  sent  to  the  asylum  for 
the  insane  hereby  created  ; and  all  such  patients  shall  be  a charge 
upon  the  respective  counties  from  which  they  are  sent.  And  all 
the  chronic  insane  paupers  of  the  several  counties  of  the  State 
shall  be  sent  to  said  asylum  by  the  superintendents  of  the  poor, 
except  from  those  counties  having  asylmns  for  the  insane,  to  which 
they  are  now  authorized  to  send  such  insane  patients  by  special 
legislative  enactments,  or  such  counties  as  have  been,  or  may  here- 
after be,  exempted  by  the  State  board  of  charities. 

TITLE  NINTH. 

LICENSES  FOR  PRIVATE'  ASYLUMS. 

Section  1.  No  person  or  association  shall  establish  or  keep  an 
asylum,  institution,  house  or  retreat  for  the  care,  custody  or 
treatment  of  the  insane  or  persons  of  unsound  mind,  for  compen- 
sation or  hire,  without  first  obtaining  a license  therefor  from  the 
State  commissioner  in  lunacy ; provided  that  this  section  shall  not 
apply  to  any  State  asylum  or  institution,  or  any  asylum  or  institu- 
tion established  or  conducted  by  any  county  ; and  provided,  also. 


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that  it  shall  not  apply  to  cases  where  an  insane  person  or  person 
of  unsound  mind  is  detained  and  treated  at  his  own  house  or  that 
of  some  relative.  > 

§ 2.  Every  application  for  such  license  shall  be  accompanied  by 
a plan  of  the  premises  proposed  to  be  occupied,  describing  the 
capacities  of  the  buildings  for  the  uses  intended,  the  extent  and 
location  of  grounds  appurtenant  thereto,  and  the  number  of 
patients  of  either  sex  proposed  to  be  received  therein  ; and  it  shall 
not  be  lawful  for  said  commissioner  to  grant  any  such  license 
without  having  first  visited  the  premises  proposed  to  be  licensed, 
and  being  satisfied  by  such  examination  that  they  are  as  described, 
and  are  otherwise  fit  and  suitable  for  the  purposes  for  which  they 
are  designed  to  be  used. 


TITLE  TENTH. 

STATE  COMMISSIONER  IN  LUNACY. 

Section  1.  The  Governor  shall  nominate  and,  by  and  with  the 
advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  appoint  an  experienced  and  com- 
petent physician,  who  shall  be  designated  as  the  State  commissioner 
in  lunacy,  who  shall  hold  his  ofiice  for  five  years  and  receive  an 
annual  salary  of  four  thousand  dollars,  and  traveling  and  other 
incidental  expenses,  not  to  exceed  one  thousand  dollars,  to  be  paid 
on  presentation  of  vouchers  to  the  comptroller. 

§ 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  commissioner  to  examine  into 
and  report  annually  to  the  legislature,  on  or  before  the  fifth  day  of 
January,  the  condition  of  the  insane  and  idiotic  in  this  State,  and 
the  management  and  conduct  of  the  asylums,  public  and  private, 
and  other  institutions  for  their  care  and  treatment.  The  duties  of 
said  commissioner  in  regard  to  the  insane  shall  be  performed  so  as 
not  to  prejudice  the  established  and  reasonable  regulations  of  such 
asylums  and  institutions  aforesaid  ; and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
officers  and  others  respectively  in  charge  thereof  to  give  such  com- 
missioner, at  all  times,  free  access  to  and  full  information  concern- 
ing the  insane  and  their  treatment  therein.  It  shall  also  be  the 
duty  of  such  commissioner  to  inquire  and  report,  from  time  to 
time,  as  far  as  he  may  be  able,  the  results  of  the  treatment  of  the 
insane  of  other  States  and  countries,  together  with  such  particulars 
pertaining  thereto  as  he  may  deem  proper. 

§ 3.  The  said  commissioner  shall  have  power  to  make  and  use 


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an  official  seal,  and  all  copies  of  papers  and  documents  in  liis  pos- 
session and  custody  may  be  authenticated  in  the  usual  form,  under 
his  official  seal  and  signature,  and  used  as  evidence  in  all  courts 
and  places  in  this  State,  in  like  manner  as  similar  certificates  ema- 
nating from  any  other  public  officer. 

§4.  The  said  coinmissiotier  is  hereby* empowered  to  issue  com- 
pulsory process  for  the  attendance  of  witnesses  and  the  production 
of  papers;  to  administer  oaths  and  to  examine  persons  under  oath 
in  all  cases  where,  from  evidence  laid  before  him,  there  is  reason  to 
believe  that  any  person  is  wrongfully  deprived  of  his  liberty,  or  is 
cruelly,  negligently  or  improperly  treated  in  any  asylum,  institu- 
tion or  establishment,  public  or  private,  for  the  custody  of  the 
insane  ; and  if  the  same  shall  be  proved  to  his  satisfaction,  it  shall 
be  his  duty  to  report  the  facts,  together  with  his  conclusions  thereon, 
to  a justice  of  the  supreme  court,  who  shfjll  thereupon  grant  the 
necessary  relief. 

§ 5.  The  superintendent  or  keeper  of  every  county  poor-house, 
city  alms-house  or  other  asylums  where  insane  paupers  are  kept, 
shall,  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  November  in  each  and  every 
year,  report  to  the  State  commissioner  in  lunacy  the  numbers  of 
male  and  female  insane,  idiots  and  epileptics  in  his  custody  on  the 
first  day  of  November  last  past,  together  with  a statistical  exhibit 
of  the  number  of  admissions,  discharges  and  deaths  that  have 
occurred  within  the  past  year  among  that  class  of  persons,  and  the 
average  weekly  cost  of  their  maintenance.  He  shall  also  state  the 
actual  condition  of  those  discharged  and  the  causes  of  death  in 
those  dying  within  the  institution. 

§ 6.  Any  superintendent  or  keeper  of  a county  poor-house,  city 
alms-house  or  other  asylum  where  insane  paupers  are  kept,  who 
shall  neglect  to  report  as  above  cited,  shall  be  guilty  of  a misde- 
meanor, and,  on  conviction,  be  subject  to  a fine  of  not  less  than 
fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  district  attorney  of  the  proper  county  to 
proceed  against  such  offenders  according  to  law. 


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Chapter  464. 

An  Act  to  amend  an  ‘‘Act  to  provide  for  the  support  and 
care  of  State  paupers,”  passed  June  seventh,  eighteen 
hundred  and  seventy-three. 

Passed  May  18,  1874;  three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of.  New  York,  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assemljly,  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  Section  two  of  the  act  entitled  ‘An  act  to  provide 
for  the  support  and  care  of  State  paupers,”  passed  June  seventh, 
eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-three,  is  hereby  amended  so  as  to 
read  as  follows : 

§ 2.  The  State  board  of  charities  is  hereby  authorized,  from  time 
to  time,  on  behalf  of  the  State,  to  contract,  for  such  time  and  on 
such  terms  as  it  may  deem  proper,  with  the  authorities  of  not  more 
than  fifteen  counties  or  cities  of  this  State,  for  the  reception  and 
support,  in  the  poor-houses  or  other  suitable  buildings  of  such 
counties  or  cities  respectively,  of  sucli  paupers  as  may  be  com- 
mitted to  such  poor-houses,  as  provided  by  this  act.  The  said 
board  may  establish  rules  and  regulations  for  the  discipline, 
employment,  treatment  and  care  of  such  paupers  and  for  their 
discharge.  Every  such  contract  shall  be  in  writing,  and  be  filed  in 
the  office  of  the  said  board.  The  poor-houses  or  other  buildings 
so  contracted  for  with  the  authorities  of  any  county  or  city,  while 
used  for  the  purposes  herein  mentioned,  shall  be  appropriately 
designated  by  the  said  board,  and  shall  be  known  as  State  alms- 
houses. The  said  board  may  from  time  to  time  direct  the  transfer 
of  any  such  paupers  from  one  alms-house  to  another,  and  may  give 
notice  from  time  to  time  to  counties  to  which  alms-houses  they 
shall  send  paupers. 

§ 2.  The  fifteenth  section  of  the  said  act,  passed  June  seventh, 
eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-three,  is  amended  by  adding  thereto 
as  follows:  And  also  for  clerk  hire,  and  the  compensation  of  an 
assistant  secretary  for  said  board,  to  be  certified  and  allowed  in  like 
manner.  The  assistant  secretary  shall  discharge  such  duties  as  the 
board  may  designate,' and  in  case  of  a vacancy  in  the  office  of 
secretary  of  said  board,  or  in  his  absence  or  illness,  the  duties  of 


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the  office  of  secretary  in  the  mean  time  may  be  discharged  by  such 
’ assistant  secretary. 

§ 3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  itn mediately. 


[Laws  of  1875.] 

Chapter  140. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  a better  system  of  records  of  the 
inmates  of  poor-houses  and  alms-houses. 

Passed  April  22,  1875. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows : 

Section  1.  In  addition  to  a general  register  of  the  inmates  of 
the  various  poor-houses  and  alms-houses  of  this  State,  there  shall 
hereafter  be  kept  in  each  sucii  poor-house  and  alms-house,  a record 
as  to  the  sex,  age,  birth-place,  birth  of  parents,  education,  habits, 
occupation,  condition  of  ancestors  and  family  relations,  and  the 
cause  of  dependence  of  each  person  at  the  time  of  admission,  with 
such  other  facts  and  particulars  in  relation  thereto  as  may  be 
required  by  the  State  board  of  cliarities,  upon  forms  prescribed, 
and  furnished  by  said  board. 

§ 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendents  and  overseers  of 
the  poor,  and  other  officers  charged  with  the  relief  and  support  of 
indigent  persons,  to  furnisli  the  keepers  or  other  proper  officers  in 
charge  of  such  poor-houses  and  alms-houses,  as  full  information  as 
practicable  in  relation  to  each  person  sent  or  brought  by  them  to 
such  |.>oor-house  or  alms-house,  and  the  said  keeper  or  other  officer 
in  charge  of  such  poor-house  or  altns-house  shall  record  the 
information  thus  obtained,  at  the  time  of  the  admission  of  such 
person,  on  the  forms  thus  furnished.  All  such  records  shall  be 
preserved  in  such  poor-houses  and  alms  houses,  and  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  keepers  or  other  officers  in  charge  thereof,  to  make  and 
forward  copies  of  the  same,  on  the  first  day  of  each  month,  to  the 
State  board  of  charities. 

§ 3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the  first  day  of  October,  eighteen 
hundred  and  seventy-five. 


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Chapter  173* 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  better  care  of  pauper  and 
destitute  children. 

Passed  April  24,  1875;  three-fiftlis  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  Yorh,  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  On  and  after  January  first,  eighteen  hundred  and 
seventy  six,  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  justice  of  the  peace, 
police  justice  or  other  magistrate,  to  commit  any  child,  over  three 
and  under  sixteen  years  of  age,  as  vagrant,  trnant  or  disorderly,  to 
any  county  poor-house  of  this  State,  or  for  any  county  superin- 
tendent or  overseer  of  the  poor,  or  other  officer,  to  send  any  such 
child  as  a pauper  to  any  such  poor-house  for  support  and  care, 
unless  such  child  bean  unteachable  idiot,  an  epileptic,  or  paralytic, 
or  be  otherwise  defective,  diseased  or  deformed,  so  as  to  render  it 
unfit  for  family  care,  but  such  justice  of  the  peace,  police  justice 
or  other  magistrate,  and  also  such  county  superintendent  or  over- 
seer of  the  poor  or  other  officer,  shall  commit  or  send  such  child 
or  children  not  above  exempted  to  some  orphan  asylum  or  other 
charitable  or  reformatory  institution,  as  now  provided  for  by  law. 

§ 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  superintendents  of  the 
poor,  or  other  proper  officers  charged  with  the  support  and  relief 
of  indigent  persons  of  the  several  counties  of  this  State,  in  which 
there  are  county  poor-houses,  to  cause  the  removal  of  all  children, 
between  the  age  of  three  and  sixteen  years  (not  exempted  by  the 
first  section  of  this  act)  from  their  respective  poor-houses,  on  or 
before  the  first  day  of  January,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-six, 
and  also  to  cause  the  removal  of  those  who  may  hereafter  come 
under  the  care  and  control,  or  hereafter  be  born  in  such  poor- 
houses,  before  they  shall  have  arrived  at  the  age  of  three  years, 
and  provide  for  their  support  and  care  in  families,  orphan  asylums 
or  other  appropriate  institutions  as  now  provided  for  by  law ; 
and  the  boards  of  supervisors  of  tlui  several  counties  are  hereby 

* Although  the  State  board  of  charities  is  not  named  in  the  act,  it  is  inserted 
on  account  of  the  interest  which  attaches  to  the  subject,  the  board,  in  their  report 
of  1875,  having  called  the  attention  of  the  legislature  to  the  propriety  of  such  an 
enactment. 


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required  to  take  such  action  in  the  matter  as  may  be  necessary  to 
carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  act.  In  placing  any  such  cliild  in 
any  such  institution  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  officer,  justice  or 
person  placing  it  there,  to  commit  such  child  to  an  orphan  asylum, 
charitable  or  other  reformatory  institution  that  is  governed  or  con- 
trolled by  officers  or  persons  of  the  same  religious  faith  as  the 
parents  of  such  child,  as  far  as  practicable. 


Chapter  308. 

An  Act  to  amend  chapter  six  hundred  and  sixty-one  of 
the  laws  of  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-three,  en- 
titled ‘‘An  act  to  provide  for  the  support  and  care 
of  State  paupers.” 

Passed  May  14,  1875 ; three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  Yorh,  Tepresented  in  Senate 
and  AssemMy^  do  enact  as  follows : 

Section  1.  Section  four  of  chapter  six  hundred  and  sixty-one  of 
the  laws  of  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-three,  entitled  “ An  act 
to  provide  for  the  support  and  care  of  State  paupers,’’  is  hereby 
amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

§ 4.  The  county  judge  and  justices  of  the  peace  of  the  several 
counties  of  this  State,  and  all  police  justices  and  county  superin- 
tendents of  the  poor  on  satisfactory  proof  being  made  that  the  per- 
son so  applying  for  relief  is  a State  pauper,  as  defined  by  the  first 
section  of  this  act,  shall  by  warrant  cause  such  person  to  be 
removed  or  conveyed  to  the  nearest  State  alms-house  and  such 
pauper  shall  be  maintained  therein  until  duly  discharged.  All 
testimony  taken  in  any  such  proceeding  shall  be  forwarded  by 
mail  within  five  days  thereafter  to  the  secretary  of  the  State  board 
of  charities.  A verified  statement  of  the  expenses  incurred  by  the 
person  in  making  such  removal  shall  be  sent  to  the  said  secretary^ 
And  the  State  board  of  charities  shall  examine  and  audit  the  same 
and  allow  such  expenses  as  have  been  actually  and  necessarily 
incurred  in  making  such  removal,  provided  that  no  allowance  shall 
he  made  to  any  person  for  their  time  or  service  in  making  such 
removal.  All  such  accounts  for  expenses  in  making  such  removals 
shall  be  paid  by  the  State  treasurer  on  the  warrant  of  the  comp- 


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troller,  to  the  person  incurring  the  same;  but  no  such  account 
shall  be  paid  until  it  shall  be  certified  and  allowed  by  the  said 
State  board  of  charities. 

§ 2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


Chapter  373. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  support  of  government. 

Passed  May  17,  1875  ; three-fifths  being  present. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  Neiv  Yorlc^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 

[extract.] 

STATE  BOARD  OF  PUBLIC  CHARITIES. 

For  tlie  salary  of  the  secretary  of  the  State  board  of  charities, 
three  thousand  five  hundred  dollars.  For  traveling  expenses  of 
the  commissioner  and  secretarj^,  and  for  office  expenses,  clerk  hire 
and  contingencies  of  the  State  board  of  charities,  four  thousand 
dollars. 

For  the  support  and  care  of  State  paupers,  in  pursuance  of  chap- 
ter six  hundred  and  sixty-one  of  the  laws  of  eighteen  hundred  and 
seventy-three,  and  chapter  four  hundred  and  sixty-four  of  the  laws 
of  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-four,  twenty-five  thousand  dollars. 


Chapter  634. 

An  Act  making  appropriations  for  certain  expenses  of 
government,  and  supplying  deficiencies  in  former  appro- 
priations. 

Passed  June  21, 1875 ; by  a two-third  vote. 

The  People  of  the  State  of  New  Yorh^  represented  in  Senate  and 
Asseinhly^  do  enact  as  follows  : 

For  the  support  and  care  of  State  paupers,  pursuant  to  chapter 
six  hundred  and  sixty-one  of  the  laws  of  eighteen  hundred  and 
seventy-three  for  deficiency  in  appropriation,  five  thousand  dollars. 


33 


STATE  AND  OTHER  INSTITUTIONS 

« 

SUBJECT  TO 


THE  VISITATION  OF  THE  STATE  BOARD  OF  CHARITIES. 


State  Institutions  for  the  Insane. 

INSTITUTIONS. 

Location. 

Date  of 
opening. 

Superintendent. 

Utica 

1843 

Dr.  John  P.  Gray. 

Dr.  John  B.  Chapin. 
Dr.  <1.  M.  Cleveland. 

Willard.  . .. 

18()9  . 

Hudson  River  State  Hospital — 

Buft’alo  State  Asylum  for  the  Insane 

Poughkeepsie. 
Buffalo 

1871 

State  Ilomoeopatliic  Asylum  for  the  Insane.. . . 

Middletown  .. 

Dr.  H.  R.  Stiles. 

State  Institutions  for  the  Blind. 

New  York  Institution  for  the  Blind 

1 New  York  City  1 
Batavia | 

1832.... 

1 William  B.  Wait 

New  York  State  Institution  for  the  Blind 

1868 

1 Mrs.  A.  D.  Lord. 

State  Institutions  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb. 

New  Y ork  Institution  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb . . 

Central  New  York  Institution  for  Deaf  Mutes.. 
Institution  for  the  Improved  Instruction  of 

New  York  City 

Rome 

1818 

Isaac  L.  Peet,  Prin. 
Dr.Wm.  Porter, Sup. 

Deaf  Mutes 

New  York  City 
Buffalo 

Brooklyn 

D . G r e e nbe  rge  r , Pri  n 

Le  Couteulx  St.  Mary’s  Deaf  and  Dumb  Asylum 
St.  Joseph’s  Institution  for  the  Improved  In- 
struction of  Deaf  Mutes 

1853 

State  Institution  for  Idiots. 

• 

New  York  Asylum  for  Idiots | 

Svracuse | 

1 1851 

1 Dr.  H.  B.  Wilbur. 

State  Institution  for  Inebriates. 

New  York  State  Inebriate  Asylum | 

Binghamton  .. 

1 1864 

1 Dr.  Dan’l  G.  Dodge. 

State  Reformatory  Institutions. 

New  York  House  of  Refuge 

Randall’s  Isl’d, 
New  Y'ork  City 

1852.  ... 

Israel  C.  Jones. 

Western  House  of  Refuge 

Rochester 

1849 

Levi  S.  Fulton. 

State  Alms-Houses. 

(Uesignated  under  act,  chapter  GGl,  Laws  of  1873.) 


STATE  ALMS-HOUSES. 

Location. 

Date  of  Contract. 

! 

Accommodations 
for  State  Pau- 
pers. 

Albany  city ' 

Albany 

October  1,  1873.... 

200 

Suffolk  county 

Yaphank  

October  1, 1873.  . 
October  1,1873.... 

150 

Delaware  county 

Delhi 

50 

St.  Lawrence  county 

Canton 

October  1,  1873... 
October  1, 1873. . ^ 

150 

Erie  county 

Buffalo 

200 

Broome  county 

Binghamton 

January  1, 1875 

50 

Jefferson  county 

Watertown 

January  1, 1875 

January  1, 1875. . . 

50 

Onondaga  county 

Syracuse 

100 

Kings  county 

Flatbush 

June  20, 1875.  .. 

200 

Oneida  county 

Rome  

December  28, 1875. 
January  1, 1876.  . 

25 

Seneca  county 

Waterloo  

25 

3 


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County  Poor-Houses. 


Keeper. 

Superintendents  op  the  Poor. 

COUNTIES. 

Location. 

Name. 

Date  of 
appointment. 

Name. 

Residence. 

Albany 

Nov. 

1,  1870 

1,  1874 

G.  W.  Hoxsie* 

Albany. 

Belmont. 

Allegany 

Henrv  Wier. 
Jas.  G.  Hall . 

J an . 

A.  C.  Hall 

Broome' 

Bii^ghamton 

Dec. 

1,  1874 

E.  Spaulding. . 
C.  T.  Lowden. 

Binghamton. 

Cattaraugus  . . . 

Machias  

Wm.  P'ollett. 

Dec. 

1,  1857 

Yorksh’e  C’re. 

Cayuga 

Sennett 

E.  L.  Phelps. 

Feb. 

1,  1861 

F.  Strickland, 
A.  S.  Lamper. . 
M.  M.  Olmsted 

Red  House. 

Rutledge. 

Auburn. 

Chautauqua  . . . 

Dewittville. . . 

Will’d  Wood 

Apr. 

1,  1863 

John  Bootey.. 

Jamestown. 

Chemung  

Eirt  Griggs. 

Nov. 

3,  1864 

H.  C.  Taylor  .. 
D.  J.  Maples. . 
J.  M.  Griffin.. 

Brocton. 

Forestville. 

Elmira. 

Chenang"o 

Preston . 

Neh.  Leach.. 

Apr. 

1,  1875 

S.  E.  Lewis. . . 

Oxford. 

Clinton 

Jan. 

1,  1870 

S.  W.  Berry.. 

J.  P.  Thorpe. . 
W.  S.  Lanroy. 
C.  A.  Schilling 

Cyrus  Link 

E.  Kendall  ... 
S.  Blanchard.. 

EastPharsalia.  1 
Co  van  try.  j 

Plattsburgh.  | 
Canaan  4 Cors.  i 

Columbia 

Ghent 

A.  Wilbur... 

Cortland 

Apr. 

Apr. 

1,  1868 

E.  Taghkauic.  1 
Valatie. 

Homer.  j 

Delaware 

Delhi 

A.  Peaster. . . 

1,  1872 

E.  A.  Gallup.. 

Hobart.  1 

Dutchess 

Wash’n  Hollow, 

W WodelLsup 

Jan. 

1,  1871 

Enos  B.  Fisher 
Michael  Miller 
Walter  Wodell 

Sidney  Centre. 
Brushland.  ' 

Washington.  , 

Erie 

Buffalo 

C.A.Lceberick 

Jan. 

1,  1874 

Oscar  H.  Sowle 

Hamburgh.  [ 

Essex  

Jan. 

1,  1863 

Benajah  Tyrrel 
H.  P.  Wilson.. 

Schroon. 

Franklin 

Malone 

M.  C.  Tuller. 

Jan. 

1,  1875 

Bangor.  : 

Gloversville.  I 

Fulton  

Gloversville. . . 

L.  S.  Capron 

Apr. 

1,  1875 

Lab.  S.  Capron 

Genesee 

Bethany  

H.  Wait 

Mar. 

17,1874 

Ben.  Griswold. 

Darien. 

Greene 

Ca.i  ro 

J.  A.  Mower 

Apr. 

1,  1867 

L.  S.  Stebbins. 
Cort.  Crossman 
Luke  Roe. . . . 

Bethany.  1 

Alexander.  | 

Cairo.  ' 

Hamilton 

(No  poor-house) 

Middleville  ... 

David  Sturges. 
A.  J.  Dupont.. 
L.  W.  Sloan.. 
Philip  Harter* 

Lake  Pleasant. 

Herkimer 

P.  Harter.. 

Jan. 

1,  1875 

Morehou  Seville 
Newton’s  C’rs. 
Middleville. 

Jefferson 

Watertown  . . . 

H.  Strong. .. 

Jan. 

1,  1861 

H.  Strong*. . . 

Watertown. 

Lewis 

Lowville 

P.  Green  . . . 

Mar. 

1872 

Win  Boshart. 

Lowville. 

Livingston  ... 

Geneseo 

G.H.  Barney, 

Jan. 

1,  1867 

Joseph  C.  Otis 
C.  M.  Merriam 
G.  H.  Barney.. 

Denmark.  I 

Locust  Grove. 
Mount  Morris. 

Madison 

Eaton 

Supt. 

J.  F.Wheeler 

Nov.  22. 1874 

Allen  Curtis.. . 

Madison. 

Monroe 

Rochester 

E.H. Howard 

Apr. 

Jan. 

1,  1875 

Z.  J.  Moseley. 
N.  M.  Chaffee.. 
G.E.McGonegal 
Martin  Briggs. 

Georgetown. 

Oneida. 

Rochester. 

Montgomery  . . 

Fultonville .... 

R.  Wemple. . 

13,  1870 

St.  Johusville. 

Niagara  

Lockport 

G.W.  Rector 

Apr. 

Jan. 

1,  1868 

O.  C.  Gibson.. 

Lockport. 

Westmoreland 

Oneida 

Rome 

M.  Cheney. . 
H.  R.  Knapp 

1,  1861 

R.  Morrison... 

Onondaga 

Onondaga  Hill. . 

Oct. 

1,  1874 

H.  H.  Loomis. 

Cicero. 

Ontario 

Canandaigua  . . . 

C.  Spear . . . 

Oct. 

1,  1874 

J.  H.  Benham. 

Hopewell  C’re. 
Reed’s  Corn’s. 
Canandaigua. 
Goshen. 

Orange 

Goshen  

P.A.Millsp’gh 

Apr. 

L 1871 

W.  B.  Witter.. 
C.  E.  Shepard. 
J.  H.  Goodale. 

Orleans 

Alhion 

G.  Clark,  sup. 
Gallet  Tullar 

Jan. 

1,  1873 

Geo.  Clark.  .. 

Albion.  i 

Oswego  

Mexico 

Jan. 

1,  1867 

E.  M.  Baldwin 

Fulton.  i 

Otsego  

Cooperstown . . . 

S.H.Teachout 

Jan. 

1, 1874 

C.  Wiltse 

D.  Edick 

L.  W.  Rathbon 

Hannibal.  1 

Parish.  ' 

E.  Springfield.  ; 

Putnam 

Queens 

Rensselaer 

Carmel 

Freeport 

Troy 

K.  Henion  . . 
C.  Wright... 

L.  Morey 

Sep. 

Mar. 

15, 1874 

1873 

(No  superin’t.) 
C.  A.  Powell.. 
J.  Anderson... 

1 J.  L.  Pearsall.. 
M.  P.  De  Freest 

Hempstead. 

Hempstead. 

Roslyn. 

, Troy. 

Richmond  

N ew  Dnrp 

T. McCormick 

Jan. 

1,  1870 

J.  Denison 

W.  McChesney 
D.  R.  Decker. 

Berlin. 

Brunswick. 

Graniteville. 

Geo.  Wilson.. 
J.C.Dissosway 
Eman.  Kappes 
D.  Dempsey  .. 

Stapleton. 

Westfield. 

Edgewater. 

New  Brighton. 

* Appointed  by  the  Board  of  Supervisors. 


35 

County  Poor-Houses  — {Concluded). 


COUNTIES. 

Location. 

Keeper. 

Superintendents  of  the  Poor. 

Name. 

Date  of 
appointment. 

Name. 

Residence. 

Rockland  . ... 

Monsey 

J.Van  Houten 

Apr.  15,  1861 

Wm.  Server.. . 

Monsey. 

Thos.  Dinan.. 

Piermont. 

Jas.  A.  Barnes 

Haverstraw. 

St.  Lawrence. 

Canton 

G.L.TownsPy 

Jan. 

1,  1870 

D.  Fields 

Ogdensburgh. 

G.  Robinson.. 

Canton. 

F.  P.  Balch  . . . 

Massena. 

Saratoera 

Ballston 

G.  D.  Story. 

Apr. 

1,  1872 

Z.  Lawrence.. 

Greenfield. 

Geo.  W.  King. 

Edinburgh. 

Schenectady. . . 

Schenectady  . . . 

P.  Eygener. . 

Jan. 

1,  1875 

Harr’n  Clute.. 

Schenectady. 

Schoharie 

Middleburgh.... 

A.Spickerm’n 

June  24, 1868 

David  Zeh 

Middleburgh. 

E.  W.  Prentiss 

Altay. 

Seneca 

Waterloo 

J.  Hinckley. 

Jan.  27,  1865 

Wm.  Parish... 

Seneca  Falls. 

P.  S.  Van  Lew 

Ovid  Centre. 

W.  H.  Allen.. 

Waterloo. 

Steuben  

Bath 

E.  Carrington 

Apr. 

1,  1872 

Esek  Page 

Haskinsville. 

L.  Carpenter. . 

Wayne. 

J.  S.  McKay.. 

Campbell. 

Suffolk  

Vaphank 

J.  Lowden.. 

Jan. 

1,  1873 

S.  R.  Williams 

Amityville. 

T.  H.  Corwin 

Riverhead. 

Wm.  T.  Hulse 

Port  Jefferson. 

Sullivan 

Monticello 

A.  R.  Dewey 

Jan. 

1,  1874 

Jas.  Graham.. 

Wurtzborough. 

Tioga  

Owego 

C.P.  Goodrich 

Jan. 

1,  1871 

E.  S.  Farnham 

Owego. 

C.  T.  Woodford 

Candor. 

Benj.  Golden.. 

Factoryville. 

Tompkins. . . . 

Ulysses  

T.  M.  Bower 

Apr. 

1, 1873 

M.  T.  Denman 

Danby. 

Jno.  M.  Smith 

Ithaca. 

P.H. Farrington 

Jacksonville. 

Ulster 

New  Paltz  

B.  J.  Winne, 

Jan. 

1,  1871 

Benj.  J.  Winne 

New  Paltz. 

Snpt. 

Warren 

Warrensburgh  . 

E.  G.  Hall. . . 

Apr. 

1,  1869 

Alex.  T.  Pasco 

Warrensburgh. 

Washington . . . 

Argyle 

G.  S.  Lake.. 

Apr. 

1,  1873 

David  Hall 

Argyle. 

1 

John  M.  Rea. . 

Belcher. 

Wayne 

Lyons . . 

Geo.  Carver. 

Dec. 

1,  1873 

John  G.  Mead. 

Macedon  C’re. 

M.  Cookingham 

Lock  Berlin. 

Durf.  Wilcox. . 

South  Sodus. 

Westchester  .. 

White  Plains. . . 

W.  Hammond 

Apr. 

1,  1867 

Geo.  Cooper. . . 

Westchester. 

Adam  Palm,  Jr 

Mount  Vernon. 

Wm.  Mabie... 

Peekskill. 

Wyoming 

Varysburgh 

Sylv.  Field . . 

Dec. 

1,  1875 

B.  F.  Bristol.. 

Gainesville. 

John  S.  Rogers 

North  Java. 

I.  G.  Hammond 

Wyoming. 

Yates 

Jerusalem 

A.T. Dunning 

Sept. 

1,  1875 

Benj.  F.  Enos. 

Penn  Yan. 

36 

City  Alms-Houses. 


ALMS-HOUSES. 


Kings  Co.  {BrcoMn  city) 

Alms-house 

Alms-house  proper 

Hospital 

Incurahle  Hospital 

Lunatic  Asylum 

Kingston  City  Alms- 
house   


Newburgh  City  & Town 
Alms-house 


N.  Y.  City  Alms-house 

Bellevue  Hospital 

Charity  Hospital 

Small-pox  Hospital 

Fever  Hospital 

Alms-house  proper 

Hospital  for  Incurables. 

Blind  Asylum 

Lunatic  Asylum 

Epileptic  aucl  Paralytic 

Hospital 

Asylum  for  Insane 

Infants’  Hospital 

Nurseries 

Nursery  Hospital 

Idiot  Asylum 

Oswego  City  Alms-house 
Poughk’psie  City  Alms- 
house   

Utica  City  Alms-house 
and  hospital 


Location. 

Resident  Officers. 

Flatbush 

Flatbush 

Flatbush 

Flatbush 

William  Murray 

Dr.  P.  L.  Schenck 

Flatbush  

Kingston 

Newburgh 

Dr.  Jas.  A.  Blanchard. 

Isaac  D.  L.  Montanye.; 

William  H.  June 

Ft.  26th  st.,E.  R.. 
Blackwell’s  Isl’d 
Blackwell’s  Isl’d 
Blackwell’s  Isl’d 
Blackwell’s  Isl’d 
Blackwell’s  Isl’d 
Blackwell’s  Isl’d 
Blackwell’s  Isl’d 

Blackwell’s  Isl’d 
Ward’s  Island.. 
Randall’s  Island. 
Randall’s  Island. 
Randall’s  Island. 
Randall’s  Island. 
Oswego 


Boards  of  Control. 


Dr.  Daniel  H.  Kitchen 


Dr.  R.  L.  Parsons. 


Theodore  H.  Kellogg. 
Wiiliam  H.  Stephens.. 


Commis’ers  of  Charities. 


Commis’ers  of  Charities. 


Commis’ers  of  Charities. 
Com.  of  Char,  and  Cor. 


Commis'ers  of  Charities. 


Poughkeepsie  . . | 
Utica 


R.  T.  Harding 

Lawrence  W.  Dutcher.l  Commis’ers  of  Charities. 
David  Dimbleby | Commis’ers  of  Charities. 


Town  Poor-Houses. 


TOWN 

POOR-HOUSES. 

Location. 

Resident  Officers. 

Boards  of  Control. 

Hempstead  Town  Poor- 

House 

Oyster  Bay  and  North 
Hempstead  Town 

Poor-Honsft 

Hempstead  .... 

Brookville  .... 

37 

Orphan  Asylums  and  Homes  for  the  Friendless. 


INSTITUTIONS. 


Location. 


Date  of 
incorporation. 


Albany  Orphan  Asylum  . . 

Albany  Guardian  Society  and  Home  for  the 

J^riendless 

American  Female  Guardian  Society  and 

Home  for  the  Friendless 

Association  for  Befriending  Children  and 

Young  Girls,  New  York 

Association  for  the  Relief  of  Respectable 

Aged  Indigent  Females,  New  York 

Asylum  of  Our  Lady  of  Refuge,  Buffalo.  . . . 
Baptist  Home  for  the  Aged 

Brooklyn  Industrial  School  Association  and 

Home  for  Destitute  Children 

Brooklyn  Industrial  School  Associat'n,  E.  D. 

Brooklyn  Nursery 

Buffiilo  Orphan  Asylum 

Cayuga  Asylum  lor  Destitute  Children,  Au- 
burn  

Chapin  Home  for  the  Aged  and  Infirm,  N.  Y. 
Charity  Foundation  of  the  Protestant  Episco- 
pal Church,  Buffalo 

Children’s  Aid  Society,  Brooklyn  . . 

Children’s  Aid  Society,  New  York 

Children’s  Fold,  New  York 

Children’s  Friend  Society,  Albany 

Children’s  Home  Socieiy  (Day  Home),  Troy. 
Church  Charity  Foundation,  of  Long  Island. 

Colored  Home,  New  York 

Colored  Orphan  Asylum,  New  York 

Covenant  of  Sisters  of  Mercy,  Brooklyn... 
Davenport  Female  Orphan  Asylum,  Bath . . . 
Evangelical  Lutheran  St.  John’s  Orphan 

Home,  Buffalo 

Excelsior  Farm 

I’emale  Christian  Home,  New  York 

Five  Points  House  of  Industry,  New  York.. 

Five  Points  Mission,  New  York 

German  Roman  Catholic  Orphan  Asylum... 
Hebrew  Benevolent  and  Orphan  Asylum 

Society,  New  York 

Home  for  Aged  and  Infirm  Hebrews,  New 

York 

Home  for  the  Aged  of  the  Little  Sisters  of 

the  Poor 

Home  for  the  Aged  of  the  Little  Sisters  of 

the  Poor 

Home  for  the  Aged  of  the  Little  Sisters  of 

the  Poor,  New  York 

Home  for  the  Aged  of  the  Little  Sisters  of 

the  Poor  

Home  for  the  Blind,  New  York 

Home  for  Christian  Care  

Home  for  the  Friendless,  Auburn 

Home  for  the  Friendless,  Buffalo 

Home  for  the  Friendless,  Lockport..  

Home  for  the  Friendless,  Newburgh 

Home  for  the  Friendless,  Rochester 

Home  for  the  Friendless,  Schenectady 

Home  for  the  Homeless,  Utica 

Home  for  Fallen  and  Friendless  Girls,  New 

York 

Home  for  the  Friendless  of  Northern  New 

York..  ..  

House  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  Brooklyn 

House  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  New  York. . . 

House  of  the  Good  Shepherd 

House  of  the  Good  Shepherd 

House  for  Idle  and  Truant  Children 

House  of  Mercy,  New  York 

House  of  Shelter,  Albany 

Howard  Colored  Orphan  Asylum 

Howard  Mission,  New  York 

Hudson  Orphan  and  Relief  Association 

Industrial  School  of  the  Sisters  of  Mercy... 


Robin  street,  Albany 

Clinton  avenue,  Albany 

No.  29  East  29th  st.,  N.  Y.  city.. 

No.  136  Second  ave.,  N.  Y.  city. . 

No.  1.39  East  20th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. . 

Best  street,  Buffalo 

E.  68th  st.,  bet.  Lex.  and  4th  ave- 
nues, N.  Y.  city 

Butler  street,  Brooklyn 

Brooklyn,  Eastern  District 

Brooklyn 

Virginia  street,  Buffalo 

Auburn 

66th  street,  N.  Y.  city 

Rhode  Island  street,  Buffalo  . . . 

Brooklyn 

Office  No.  19  E.  4th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 
No.  437  E.  58th  st.,  N.  Y.  city  . . . 

Albany  

Congress  street,  Troy 

Albany  avenue,  Brooklyn 

64th  st.,  near  1st  ave..  N.  Y.  city. 
143d  st.  and  10th  ave. I N.  Y.  city. 

Willoughby  ave.,  Brooklyn 

Bath 

No.  280  Hickory  street,  Buffalo.. 

Rochester 

No.  314  East  15th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 
No  155  Worth  st.,  N.  Y.  city  ... 

No.  61  Park  st.,  N.  Y.  city 

Buffalo 

3d  ave.  and  77th  st.,  N.  Y.  city.. 

No.  322  IjCx.  ave.,  N.  Y.  city 


Albany  

Brooklyn .' 

No.  179  East  70th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 

Troy 

No.  219  W.  14th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. . 

New  York  city 

Canal  street.  Auburn 

Seventh  street,  Buffalo 

Lockport 

Montgomery  street,  Newburgh. . 

East  avenue,  Rochester 

No.  35  Green  st..  Schenectady  .. 
Faxton  street,  Utica 

No.  86  West  4th  st.,  N.  Y.  city.. 

Plattsburgh 

No.  229  Henry  street,  Brooklyn. 
89th  st..  East  river,  N.  Y.  city. .. 
Stony  Point,  Rockland  county. . 

Utica 

Rochester 

86th  st..  North  river,  N.  Y.  city. 

Albany 

Brooklyn 

No.  40  New  Bowery,  N.  Y.  city. 

State  street,  Hudson 

Rochester 


Mar. 

.31,  1831  V 

Jan. 

6,  1852 

April 

6,  1849 

Sept. 

— , 1869 

Feb. 

14,  1814 

Jan. 

14,  1866 

April 

15,  1857 

Mar. 

26,  1860 

April 

24,  1837 

May 

10,  18.52 

May 

1,  1869 

— 

— , 1858 

Jan. 

1,  1855 

Feb. 

14,  1860 

April 

10,  1861 

Mar. 

13,  1851 

May 

8,  1845 

May 

16,  18.38 

Mar. 

8,  1865  • 

April 

15,  1862 

April 

14,  1865 

Jan. 

— , 1862 

Mar. 

3,  1854 

Mar. 

20,  1856 

Aug. 

6,  1856 

Feb. 

22,  1832 

Nov. 

21,  1848 

Sept. 

28,  1869 

Aug. 

23,  1871 

April 

— , 1868 

July 

31,  1865 

Jan. 

11,  1868 

April 

7,  1862 

June 

4,  18.55 

Nov. 

4,  1868 

Nov. 

19,  1866 

— 

— , 1866 

Dec. 

23,  1868 

Nov. 

1,  1868 

— 

— , 1870 

Feb. 

23,  1855 

Sept. 

7,  1868 

— 

— , 1861 

April 

21,  1846 

38 

Orphan  Asylums  and  Homes  for  the  Friendless  — {Continued). 


INSTITUTIONS. 


Location . 


Inngleside  Home,  Buft’alo 

Institution  of  Mercy  (East  Houston  street), 

New  York 

Institution  of  Mercy  (Eighty-first  street). 

New  Yoi'k 

Isaac  T.  Hopper  Home,  New  York 

Jefferson  County  Orphan  Asylum 

Ladies’  Benevolent  Society,  Schenectady... 
Ladies’  Union  Aid  Society  (M.  E.  Church 

Home),  New  York 

Ladies’  Union  Relief  Association,  New 

York 

Leake  and  Watts  Orphan  Asylum,  New  York 

Madison  County  Orphan  Asylum 

Magdalen  Benevolent  Society 

Mariners’  Family  Asylum 

Midnight  Mission 

New  York  Catholic  Protectory 

New  York  Foundling  Asylum 

New  York  Infant  Asylum 

New  York  Juvenile  Asylum 

New  York  Juvenile  Guardian  Society 

New  York  Seaman’s  Association 

Nursery  and  Child’s  Hospital,  New  York. . 

Onondaga  County  Orphan  Asylum 

Ontario  County  Orphan  Asylum  

Orphan  Asylum  Society,  Brooklyn 

Orphan  Asylum  Society,  New  York 

Orphans’  Home  Asylum  of  the  Holy  Trinity 

Church,  Brooklyn,  Eastern  District 

Orphans’  Home  and  Asylum  of  the  Protest- 
ant Episcopal  Church,  New  York 

Orphans’  Home,  St.  Peter’s  Church,  Albany 

Orphan  House  of  the  Holy  Saviour 

Oswego  Orphan  Asylum 

Poughkeepsie  Orphan  House  and  Home  for 

the  Friendless  

Presbyterian  Home,  New  York 

Protestant  Episcopal  Church  Home,  Roch- 
ester  

Rochester  Industrial  School 

Rochester  Home  of  Industry 

Rochester  Orphan  Asylum 

Roman  Catholic  Orphan  Asylum,  Brooklyn. 
Roman  Catholic  Orphan  Asylum,  New  York. 
Samaritan  Home  for  Aged  Men  and  Women, 

New  York 

Sheltering  Arms,  New  York 

Sheltering  Arms  Nursery  (P.  E.  Church) 

Shelter  for  Babies,  New  York 

Shelter  for  Respectable  Girls 

Shepherd’s  Fold,  New  York 

Sisters  of  the  Order  of  St.  Dominick  (Asy- 
lum), New  York 

Society  for  the  Protection  of  Destitute  Ro- 
man Catholic  Children,  Buffalo 

Society  for  the  Relief  of  Destitute  Children 

of  Seamen 

Society  for  the  Relief  of  Half  Orphan  and 

and  Destitute  Children,  New  York 

Society  for  the  Relief  of  Respectable  Aged 

Indigent  Females 

Southern  Tier  Orphans’  Home,  Elmira 

St.  Barnabas’  House,  New  York 

St.  Francis’  Asylum  

St.  John’s  Female  Ori)han  Asylum,  Utica.  . 

St.  Joseph’s  Asylum,  New  York 

St.  Joseph’s  Asylum  and  House  of  Provi- 
dence   

St.  Joseph’s  German  Roman  Catholic  Or- 
phan Asylum,  Rochester 

St.  Joseph’s  Home  for  the  Aged,  New  York. 
St.  Joseph’s  Male  Orphan  Asylum, Buffalo. . 
St.  Luke’s  Home  for  Indigent  Christian  Fe- 
males, New  York 


Buffalo 

No.  33  E.  Houston  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 

81st  st.,  near  4th  ave.,  N.  Y.  city. 

No.  213  10th  ave.,  N.  Y.  city 

Watertown 

Schenectady 

W.  42d  st.,  nearSth  av.,  N.  Y.  city. 

Cor.  22d  st.  and  5th  av.,  N.  Y.  city. 
10th  av.  and  112th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 

Peterboro  

88th  st.,  near  5th  ave.,  N.  Y.  city. 

Staten  Island 

No.  260  Green  street,  N.  Y.  city. 

Westchester,  near  N.  Y.  city 

68th  st.,  bet.  3d  and  Lex’gton  avs. 

No.  24  Clinton  place 

176th  st.  and  10th  ave.,  N.  Y.  city. 

New  York  city 

New  York  city 

Lex.  av.  and  51st  st.,  N.  Y.  city.. 

Syracuse 

Canandaigua.  

Brooklyn 

73d  st.  and  11th  ave.,  N.  Y.  city.. 

Graham  ave.,  Brooklyn,  E.  D 

Cor.  49th  st.  & Lex.  av.,  N.Y.  city 

Albany  

Cooperstown  . . 

Oswego 

Poughkeepsie 

73d  st.,  near  Mad.  av.,  N.  Y.  city. 

Rochester 

No.  76  Exchange  st.,  Rochester. . 

Rochester 

Hubbell  Park,  Rochester 

Brooklyn 

New  York  city 

No.  409  West  14th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 
129th  st.,  cor.  10th  av.,  N.  Y.  city. 

Brooklyn 

New  York  city 

New  York  city 

86th  st.,  east  of  2d  av.,  N.  Y.  city. 

No.  141  2d  street,  N.  Y.  city 

West  Seneca,  near  Buft’alo 

Snug  Harbor,  Staten  Island 

No.  65  West  10th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. . 

Brooklyn 

Elmira 

304  Mulberry  st.,  N.  Y.  city 

No.  331  Pine  street,  Bufifalo 

No.  60  John  street,  Utica 

Cor.  89th  st.  and  Av.  A,  N.  Y.  city. 

Syracuse 

No.  48  Andrews  st.,  Rochester. . . 
No.  205  West  15th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 
West  Seneca,  near  Bufi’alo 

No.  487  Hudson  st.,  N.  Y.  city... 


Date  of 
Incorporation. 


Nov.  — , 1848 

Sept.  8,  1869 

— , 1845 

May  11,  1859 
Dec.  30,  1868 

June  19,  1851 

Jan.  12,  1867 
— , 1843 

Oct.  31,  1851 

Feb.  — , 1867 
April  14,  1863 
Oct.  9,  1869 
Mar.  11,1865 
June  30,  1851 
Jan.  6,  1866 

April  19,  1854 
May  10,  1845 
July  22,  1863 
April  15.  1835 
April  7,  1807 

Nov.  23,  1861 

June  20,  1859 


Feb.  11,  1852 

April  —,1852 
— , 1869 

Sept.  21,  1869 
April  15,  1857 

Mar.  23,  1838 
May  6,  1834 
April  13,1852 

— , 1866 

Oct.  3,  1864 


Mar.  — , 1868 
Dec.  20,  1869 
April  25,  1864 
May  27,  1851 
April  27,  1837 


Feb.  14,  1868 

April  30,  1867 
Mar.  28,  1849 
April  15,  1859 


April  23,  1863 
May  11,  1868 
Aug.  7,  1851 

Jan.  12, 1854 


89 

Orphan  Asylums  and  Homes  for  the  Friendless  — {Concluded). 


INSTITUTIONS. 


Location. 


Date  of 
incorporation. 


St.  Mary’s  Boys’  Orphan  Asylum,  Rochester 

St.  Mary’s  Orphan  Asylum,  Canandaigua 

St.  Mary’s  Orphan  Asylum,  Dunkirk 

St.  Mai-y’s  Orphan  Asylum 

St.  Patrick’s  Female  Orphan  Asylum,  Roch- 
ester   

St.  Patrick’s  Orphan  Asylum,  Newburgh. .. 
St.  Peter’s  German  Roman  Catholic  Asso- 
ciation, Roiulout . . 

St.  Stephen’s  Orphan  Asylum,  New  York  .. 

St.  Thomas’  Orphan  Asylum.  Batavia 

St.  Vincentde  Paul’s  Industrial  School,  New 

York 

St.  Vincent  de  Paul’s  Orphan  Asylum 

St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Orphan  Asylum,  Syra- 
cuse   

St.  Vincent’s  Female  Orphan  Asylum,  A1 

bany 

St.  Vincent’s  P’emale  Orphan  Asylum,  Buf- 
falo  . 

St.  Vincent’s  Female  Orphan  Asylum,  Troy. 

St.  Vincent’s  Home  for  Boys 

St.  Vincent’s  Home  for  Boys 

St.  Vincent’s  Infant  Orphan  Asylum,  Buffalo 
St.  Vincent’s  Male  Orphan  Asylum,  Albany. 
St.  Vincent’s  Male  Orphan  Asylum,  Utica... 
Susquehanna  VTdley  Home.  Binghamton  . . . 

Syracuse  Home  Association 

Temporary  Home  for  Friendless  Women 

and  Children 

Thomas  Asylum  for  Orphan  and  Destitute 

Indian  Children,  Versailles 

Troy  Catholic  Male  Orphan  Asylum. 

Troy  Orphan  Asylum 

Truant  Home 

Union  Home  and  School  for  the  Education 
and  Maintenance  of  the  children  of  our 

Volunteers,  N.  Y 

Utica  Orphan  Asylum 

Wilson’s  Industrial  School  for  Girls,  New 

York 

Women’s  Aid  Society  and  Home  for  Train- 
ing Young  Girls,  New  York 


West  avenue,  Rochester 

Canandaigua 

Dunkirk 

Port  Jervis 

Frank  street,  Rochester 

Newburgh 

Kingston  Point  Road,  Rondout.. 

East  28th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. . ■. 

Batavia 

New  York  city | 

New  York  city 

No.  20  Madison  street,  Syracuse. . 

Elm  street,  Albany 

Cor.  Batavia  & Ellicott  sts.,Buft'. 

No.  185  Third  street,  Troy 

Brooklyn 

New  Yoi'k  city 

No.  120  Edward  street,  Buffalo. ..- 

Western  avenue,  Albany 

Rutger  street,  Utica 

Binghamton 

Syracuse 

Brooklyn 

Versailles,  Erie  county 

Cor.  Hanover  & Bedf’d  sts,,  Troy. 

Eighth  street,  Troy 

Brooklyn 


150th  st.  and  11th  ave.,  N.  Y.  city. 
Genesee  street,  Utica  

Co.  Ave.  A and  8th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 

No.  41  7th  ave  , N.  Y.  city 


Dec.  27,  1864 
Oct.  6,  1855 
Jan.  11,  1858 


May  14,  1845 
Jan.  7,  1868 

April  29,  1863 

May  5,  1868 


.June  12,  1860 


Jan.  29,  1849 
Oct.  26,  1863 


Jan.  12,  1852 

— , 1849 

April  21,  1862 
Mar.  1.5,  1869 
June  4,  1853 


April  10,  1855 
Jan.  5,  1864 
April  10,  1835 


April  22,  1862 
April  19,  1830 

Feb.  14,  1853 

— , 1866 


40 

Hospitals. 


NAME. 


Albany  City  Hoinceopathic  Hospital 

Albany  Hos))ital 

Asylum  for  Lying-in-Women,  New  York 

Hrooklyn  City  Hospital 

Jirooklyn  Eye  and  Ear  Hospital 

Hrooklyn  Homoeopathic  Hospital 

liiiftalo  General  Hospital 

Buffalo  Hospital  of  the  Sisters  of  Charity 

German  Hospital,  New  York  

Hahnemann  Hospital,  New  York 

Home  for  Incurable,  West  Farms 

Homoeopathic  Hospital 

Hospital  for  Ruptured  and  Crippled,  New 

York 

House  of  Rest  for  Consumptives  

Long  Island  College  Hospital 

Manhattan  Eye  and  Ear  Hospital,  New  V ork. 

Marshall  Infirmary,  Troy ... 

Mount  Sinai  Hospital,  New  York 

New  York  Eve  and  Ear  Infirmary. . . 

New  York  Infirmary  for  Women  and  Children 
New  York  Medical  College  and  Hospital  for 

Women 

New  Yo'-k  Ophthalmic  and  Aural  Institute, 

New  York 

New  York  Ophthalmic  Hospital 

New  York  State  Hospital  for  Diseases  of  the 

Nervous  System,  New  York 

New  York  Hospital  for  the  Treatment  of 

Cancer,  New  York 

Presbyterian  Hospital,  New  York 

Roosevelt  Hospital,  New  A^ork 


Rochester  City  Hospital 

St.  Barnabas’  Hospital 

St.  Elizabeth’s  Hospital,  New  York 

St.  Elizabeth’s  Hospital  and  Home,  Utica. .. 

St.  Francis’  Hospital,  New  York 

St.  John’s  Hospital. . 

St.  John’s  Riverside  Hospital  

St.  Joseph’s  Hospital 

St.  Luke’s  Hospital,  New  York 

St.  Mary’s  Female  Hospital,  Brooklyn 

St.  Mary’s  Hospital,  Rochester 

St.  Mary’s  Free  Ilosnital  for  Children,  New 

York * 

St.  Mary’s  Lying-in  Hospital,  Buffalo 

St.  Peter’s  Hospital 

St.  Peter’s  Hospital,  Brooklyn .. 

St.  Vincent’s  Hospital,  New  York 

S R.  Smith  Infirmary , 

Thanksgiving  Hospital,  Cooperstown ! 

Troy  Hospital 

Woman’s  Hospital  of  the  State  of  New  York. 


Location. 


Date  of 
incorporation. 


Albany 

Cor.  flow’d  & Eagle  sts.,  Albany. 
No.  8.5  Marion  street,  N.  Y.  city. 

Raymond  street,  Brooklyn 

No.  190  Washington  st.,  Br’klyn. 

Brooklyn 

No.  100  High  street,  Buffalo 

Main  street,  Buffalo 

Cor.  4th  av.  & 77th  st.,  N.Y.  city. 

New  York  city 

WestF’ms,  Westc’ster  co.,  N.Y.. 
Buftalo  

4*2d  street.  New  York  city 

Tremont,  Westchester  county . . . 

Henry  street,  Brooklyn 

No.  238  East  34th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 

T roy 

Lexingt’n  av.  bet.  fititli  & 07th  sts. 
2d  avenue  cor.  13th  st. , N.Y.  city. 
No.  5 Lex.  Place,  N.  Y.  city 

No.  187  2d  avenue,  N.  Y.  city  . . . 

No.  46  East  12th  st.,  N.  Y.  city.. 
No.  387  Fourth  avenue 

New  York  city 

New  York  city 

Mad.  av.  and  70th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 
58th  and  59th  sts.  and  9th  and  10th 

avenues.  New  York  city 

Bufialo  street 

Poughkeepsie 

No.  225  West  31st  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 
No.  120  Columbia  street,  Utica. . 

No.  605  5th  street,  N.  Y.  city 

Brooklyn 

Yonkers 

Syracuse 

5th  av.  cor.  54th  st.,  N.  Y.  city.. 
No.  153  Clinton  street,  Brooklyn. 
West  avenue,  Rochester  

No.  407  West  34th  st..  N.  Y.  city. 
No.  126  Edward  street,  Buffalo.. 

Broadway,  Albany 

Cor.  Hicks  & Cong.  sts..  Br’klyn. 
No.  195  West  11th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 

Edgewater,  Staten  Island 

Elm  street,  Cooperstown 

Eighth  street,  Troy 

Cor.  50th  st.  & 4th  av.,  N.Y.  city. 






1869 

— 

— ’ 

1822 

— 

1845 

May 

4^ 

1868 

Nov. 

21, 

18.55 

Jan. 

24, 

1849 

April 

13, 

1861 

April 

1866 

Sept. 

24, 

1869 

— 

— , 

1858 

May 

5, 

1869 

J u n e 

20, 

1851 

Jan. 

1852 

Mar. 

29, 

1822 

Dec. 

13, 

1853 

April 

14, 

1863 

May 

I, 

1869 

April 

12, 

1852 

Feb. 

28, 

1868 

Feb. 

2. 

1864 

May 

1847 

Dec. 

12, 

1866 

Mar. 

22, 

1866 

May 

1, 

1850 

April 

3, 

1868 

Sept. 

21, 

1857 





1870 

Oct. 

25, 

1852 

Feb. 

16, 

1866 

April 

13, 

1857 

Sept. 

12, 

1868 

Mar. 

11, 

1851 

April 

18, 

1857 

41 

Dispensaries. 


NAME. 


Albany  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary. .. 

Albany  City  Homoeopathic  Dispenpary 

Albany  Hospital  Dispensary 

Atlantic  Avenue  Dispensary,  Brooklyn 

Bond  Street  Homoeopathic  Dispensary  and 

Tompkins  Square  Branch,  New  York 

Brooklyn  Central  Dispensary 

Brooklyn  City  Dispensary 

Brooklyn  Eclectic  Dispensary. . 

Brooklyn  Homoeopathic  Dispensary 

Brooklyn  Orthopedic  Dispensary,  Brooklyn. 

Buffalo  City  Dispensary 

Buffalo  Homoeopathic  Dispensary 

Central  Dispensary,  New  York 

Demilt  Dispensary,  New  York 

Dispensary  of  the  Long  Island  College  Hos- 
pital  

Dispensary  of  the  New  York  Medical  College 

and  Hospital  for  Women 

Dispensary  of  the  Troy  Hospital 

Eastern  District  Dispensary,  Brooklyn. . . . 

Eastern  Dispensary,  New  York 

Eclectic  Medical  Dispensary,  New  York 

Free  Medical  and  Surgical  Dispensary  Asso 

elation 

Gates  Avenue  Homoeopathic  Dispensary, 

Brooklyn 

German-American  Dispensary,  New  Y'ork. . . 

German  Dispensary,  New  York 

Harlem  Dispensary 

Hoffman  Dispensary,  New  York 

Homoeopathic  Medical  College  Dispensary, 

New  York 

Infirmary  (Dispensary)  of  the  New  York 

College  of  Dentisti’y 

Manhattanville  Dispensary 

Metropolitan  Homoeopathic  Dispensary,  New 

Y ork . 

Morrisania  Homoeopathic  Dispensary 

New  York  Dispensary 

New  York  Dispensary  for  Diseases  of  the 

Skin,  New  York 

New  York  Ear  Dispensary,  New  York 

New  York  Free  Dispensary  for  Sick  Children, 

New  York 

New  York  Homoeopathic  Dispensary  

New  York  Infirmary  Dispensary 

Northern  Dispensary,  New  York 

Northeastern  Dispensary,  New  York 

Northeastern  Homoeopathic  Dispensary,New 

York 

Northwestern  Dispensary,  New  York 

Orthopoedic  Dispensary,  New  York 

St.  Elizabeth’s  Dispensary,  Utica 

St.  Peter’s  Hospital  Dispensary,  Albany 

St.  Peter’s  Hospital  Dispensary.  Brooklyn.. 
Western  Dispensary  for  Women  and  Children 

New  York 

Western  Homoeopathic  Dispensary,  New 

York 

Yorkville  Dispensary 


Location. 


In  the  Hospital  building,  Howard 
street,  Albany 


Included  with  Albany  City  Horn 

oeopathic  Hospital 

In  the  Hospital  building,  Ilowarc 

street,  Albany 

Atlantic  avenue,  Brooklyn . . 


No.  511  Bond  street,  N.  Y.  city.. 
Flatbush  avenue,  Brooklyn .... 
No.  7 Tillary  street,  Brooklyn.. 
No.  236  Myrtle  avenue,  Brooklyn 
No.  178  Atlantic  st.,  Brooklyn. . 
Included  with  Brooklyn  Homce 

opatliic  Hospital 

Buftalo 

Buffalo 

No.  934  8th  avenue,  N.  Y.  city.. 
No.  401  Second  av.,  N.  Y.-city. 
Cor.  Henry  and  Pacific  streets 
Brooklyn 


No.  239  20th  street,  N.  Y.  city. . 

Troy 

Brooklyn,  E.  D 

No.  57  Essex  street,  N.  Y.  city. 
No.  223  26th  street,  N.  Y.  city. . 

Buffalo 

Junction  of  Gates  and  Fulton 

avenues,  Brooklyn 

New  York  city 

Included  with  German  Hospital 
4th  avenue,  between  124th  and 
125th  streets,  N.  Y.  city.  . , 
New  York  city.. 


No.  115  East  20th  st.,  N.  Y.  city, 


New  Y'ork  city 

Manhattanville,  N.  Y.  city. 


No.  54  Bleecker  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 

Morrisania 

No.  137  Center  st.,  N.  Y.  city. . . 


New  York  city 

36th  st.  cor.  9th  av.,  N.  Y.  city. 


No.  406  East  15th  st.,  N.  Y".  city. 
No.  109  West  34th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 

2d  avenue.  New  Y'ork  city 

Corner  Waverly  place  ana  Chris- 
topher street.  N.  Y.  city 

No.  222 East 59th st.,  N.  Y.  city.. 

No.  307  East  55th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. . 
Cor.  36th  st.  & 9th  av.,  N.  Y.  city. 
No.  126  East  .59th  st.,  N.  Y.  citv. 
Included  with  St.  Elizabetl/’s 

Hospital 

Included  with  St.  Peter’s  Hosp., 
Included  with  St.  Peter’s  Hosp., 

No.  334  9th  avenue,  N.  Y".  city.. . 

No.  433  West  37th  st.,  N.  Y.  city. 
3d  avenue  between  83d  and  84th 
street.  New  York  city 


Date  of 
incorporation. 


— 

— , 1867 

— 

— , 1868 

Feb. 

25,  1862 

Mar. 

14, 1850 

Dec. 

24, 1852  ! 

Oct. 

Mar. 

— , 1859 
15, 1867 
— , 1868 
1851 

April 

Feb. 

25,  1832 
— , 1869 

Mar. 

9,  1867 

Feb. 

24,  1869 

Dec. 

— , 1866 

May 

-,  1862 

April 

8,  1795 

April 

— , 1871 

April 

June 

2,  1871 
— , 1860 

Nov. 

Feb. 

28,  1828 

18,  1862 

Nov. 

July 

20,  1868 

7,  1852 
— , 1868 

April  20,  1869 

Mar. 

— , 1867 

42 

Private  Insane  Asylums. 


ASYLUMS. 

Location. 

Kesident  Physician. 

Accommodation 
for  patients. 

Bloomingdale  Asylum 

New  York 

Dr.  D.  T.  Brown 

200 

Bi'igham  Hall 

•Canandaigua 

Dr.  George  Cook 

75 

Home  for  Insane  and  Ner- 

vous Invalids. 

Pleasantville,  Westches- 
ter county  

Dr.  Geo.  C.  S.  Choate 

10 

Home  for  Nervous  Invalids. 

Fishkill-on-the-IIudson. 

Dr.  C.  W.  Kitridge.. 

20 

Marshall  Infirmary 

Troy 

Dr.  Jos.  D.  Lomax. . 

100 

Providence  Lunatic  Asylum. 

Buffalo 

Dr.  William  Ring,  at- 

Sanford Hall 

Flushing,  Queens  Co. . . 

tending  physician. 
Dr.  J.  W.  Barstow. . 

200 

30 

Note.— The  information  in  possession  of  the  Board  in  reference  to  the  objects  and  organiza- 
tion of  some  of  the  corporate  institutions  subject  to  their  visitation  is  somewhat  imperfect. 
Advices  as  to  this  is  earnestly  requested  from  the  officials  of  all  Institutions  referred  to.  It  is 
hoped,  therefore,  that  a subsequent  edition  of  this  Manual  may  be  more  complete  in  its  objects. 


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